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Trump’s escalation against Venezuela is about more than oil, it is about regaining control over the ‘natural’ zone of influence of the United States at a moment where its hegemony is slipping, argues VIJAY PRASHAD
Workers are paying for the pandemic, but paying the financiers’ premium is a step too far
We are already 'paying back the debt' of Covid-19 but the government is now trying to extend that to us paying off the Bank of England too. That's completely unnecessary, explains FAWZI IBRAHIM
Evidence suggests Lammy’s proposals would come at a high cost: reduced fairness, diminished trust and greater racial inequality in the criminal justice system, argue TARA LAI QUINLAN and KATHARINA KARCHER
From the workhouses of the 1840s to today’s market capitalism, A Christmas Carol remains a sharp critique of charity rationed by class, says KEITH FLETT
The argument for a “significant expansion” of nuclear power will deliver soaring electricity prices that condemn underserved communities to unending hardship and poverty, argues LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The new plan sets out an uncompromising bid for global dominance, casting even allies as obstacles to be subdued, writes DIANE ABBOTT
As we approach the half-anniversary of the Grenfell tragedy, the community gathers to remember loved ones while grappling with mixed emotions surrounding the ongoing deconstruction of the tower and the hopeful plans for a memorial, writes EMMA DENT COAD
THE CHANCELLOR says that there will be a day of reckoning — sooner or later the debt must be reduced and the money borrowed paid back, that there will be a price to pay. There is indeed a price that has to be paid, but it’s not the price the chancellor has in mind.
There is always a cost when a vast amount of national wealth has either been destroyed or not materialised, as is the case with the pandemic and the lockdown. It is a price that the working class is paying now and will continue to do after the pandemic has been conquered as the wealth creators replace the wealth that has been lost.
The idea that such pain can be offloaded onto the money-wealthy millionaires through a wealth tax is a fantasy. A wealth tax merely distributes wealth, it does not create it.
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