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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What kind of a parliament and government have we just elected?
ANDREW MURRAY looks at Labour's shifting fortunes, the left as it stands in the new parliament and the likely character of the Starmer government
GREENS APPEAL: The four new Green MPs (L to R) Sian Berry (MP for Brighton Pavilion), party co-leader Carla Denyer (MP for Bristol Central), party co-leader Adrian Ramsay (MP for Waveney Valley) and Ellie Chowns (MP for North Herefordshire)
Brazilian workers are calling for internationalist brigades to defend Venezuela from US attack, reports WT WHITNEY JR
KEITH FLETT recalls ‘the most advanced political programme to appear on the left until the time of the Bolsheviks’
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY ask how an 80-tonne whale that lives 200 years is so resistant to cancer
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
A post-election article by former Tory cabinet minister Justine Greening caught Eyes Left’s eye.
She congratulated Keir Starmer for his feat in bringing Labour back from the fringe to the mainstream.
There’s a primer in bourgeois politics. Forty per cent support for a radical programme equals “fringe.”
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