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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When lockdown ends, protecting our NHS and social care sector and preventing a second wave of the virus will be at the top of the priorities list, says BILL KIDD MSP
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
NEXT May’s elections seem a very long way off when all our focus and energy are turned towards dealing with the devastating effects of the Covid-19 virus.
However, as we all know, living in a democracy our election cycle will inevitably, and rightly, come back round.
So far, with the increased volume of work that has come through my office in terms of all the constituent and systems changes to be dealt with, until writing this article, I hadn’t really given next year’s Scottish Parliament elections a great deal of thought.
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Labour has announced it will spend billions on war instead of dedicating resources to saving children from poverty — they seem determined to drive those of us cursed with compassion to (assisted) suicide, writes MATT KERR
