The Labour leadership’s narrow definition of ‘working people’ leads to distorted and unjust Budget calculations, where the unearned income of the super-wealthy doesn’t factor in at all, argues JON TRICKETT MP
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Sixty years of blockade have not made Cuba collapse, but they have devastated it. While Washington stands isolated at the United Nations, the Cuban people are paying the price, writes KATRIEN DEMUYNCK
As Armistice Day approaches, with the far right hoping to use it to promote their own form of ‘patriotism,’ NICK WRIGHT considers the nature of conflicts in the 20th and 21st centuries and the different ways they should be remembered
THE brilliant Scottish singer-songwriter Rab Noakes was among the first members of Stealer’s Wheel — but left before the band recorded the likes of Stuck In The Middle With You and Everything Will Turn Out Fine.
His recent solo work has pulled off the rare combination of musical skill and unabashed politics — Water Is My Friend, a chronicle of his cancer treatment and a rally against the injustice of Tory NHS policies, being one song that springs to mind.
He is a socialist and a supporter of the Morning Star. Last year he gave a moving musical tribute to the paper’s late arts critic Chris Bartter at a cabaret event in his memory.
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