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John McDonnell and Labour’s New Deal
McDonnell’s plan is not about filling in potholes. It is the wholesale transformation of how we live, work and protect, writes ALAN SIMPSON
LYNNE WALSH previews the Bristol Radical History Conference this weekend
Keir Starmer’s £120 million to Sudan cannot cover the government’s complicity in the RSF genocide or atone for the long shadow of British colonialism and imperialism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
Join the traditional march from Clerkenwell Green, which will bring together countless international workers’ organisations in a statement against the far right
Ecuador’s election wasn’t free — and its people will pay the price under President Noboa
Mountains of research show that hardcore material harms children, yet there are still no simple measures in place
We face austerity, privatisation, and toxic influence. But we are growing, and cannot be beaten
WHEN former US president Franklyn Roosevelt launched his 1930s New Deal into the United State’s depression-era politics, wealthy elites in the American Liberty League were incandescent. Their denunciations focused on a claim that Roosevelt had “betrayed his own class.”
For fairly obvious reasons, Labour’s shadow chancellor John McDonnell will not face the same denunciations. But be in no doubt, the neoliberal right are already after him.
The Tory Party HQ has unleashed a pack of house-trained journalists and back-bench MPs, hounding the shadow chancellor with “Trivial Pursuit” questions about the annual cost of servicing government borrowing.
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