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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Is this the time to reclaim Labour?
Even the best Labour governments have been a disaster for the working class once in power, argues DAVID GROVE, but the lessons of Corbynism married with the current wave of militancy provide us with a unique opportunity
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
THERE should be no illusions about previous Labour governments. For the most part they have served the interests of the ruling capitalist monopolies, even when they were making concessions to popular concerns.
All were led by right-wing leaders who justified their betrayal of promise and principle with social-democratic notions such as the neutral state, nation rather than class and “benign” imperialism.
But what about Attlee’s much-vaunted government of 1945? It was the worst of the lot. How dare I make such a charge? Because, unlike other Labour governments, it had a real opportunity to change the world for the better — and didn’t even try.
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There is no doubt that Trump’s regime is a right-wing one, but the clash between the state apparatus and the national and local government is a good example of what any future left-wing formation will face here in Britain, writes NICK WRIGHT
While VINCE MILLS laments the resignation of Neil Findlay from Scottish Labour, he explains why he won’t be joining him outside the party in the ongoing struggle for a socialist future
From McCarthy’s prison cells to London’s carnival, Jones fought for peace and unity while exposing the lies of US imperialism, says ROBERT GRIFFITHS, in a graveside oration at Highgate Cemetery given last Sunday