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‘A Labour government will mean people don’t have to be scared any more’
Shadow labour minister LAURA PIDCOCK talks to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about why her party is ready and able to transform the lives of millions
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
LAURA PIDCOCK, who addresses today’s Gala, is not surprised that the summer has seen media and Establishment hostility to Labour reach fever pitch.
“We’re in a quite extraordinary political situation,” she says, “every party is. Conservatism and ‘free market’ capitalism are getting difficult to justify.
“The right know that on social care, on the NHS, on schools, the idea that the market can do a better job than a public service is being hammered. We have the Care Quality Commission reports and the waiting lists and the public can see that the private sector has failed, and not just failed the workers but the patients and users too.
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