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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The plight of the underpaid and overworked staff must be recognised and put at the heart of any strategy to save and rebuild our NHS, explains HELEN O’CONNOR
NHS workers march from St Thomas’ Hospital to Downing Street, London, to demand a pay rise
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’
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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
WITH a second wave of coronavirus on the horizon and hospital admissions rising, NHS nurses and health workers will once again be in the eye of the storm as they provide life-saving care and treatment to those most seriously unwell with coronavirus.
The first peak of the pandemic has already taken an enormous physical and psychological toll on NHS staff and they believed that this government would reward their unique and vital contribution to society.
These health staff are heading onto the front line of the second wave of this virus feeling utterly betrayed by a government which chose to deliberately overlook them in the last announcement on public-sector pay.
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