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What exactly is the Green Prosperity Plan?
Is it a massive injection of public cash to the tune of billions — or is it another ‘fund’ to attract private finance? Don’t get your hopes up, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
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
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
THE Labour Party’s biggest remaining promise is a Green Prosperity Plan, promising to spend “£28 billion per year” investing in green jobs and insulation. That sounds like a big offer. But what does it say in the small print?
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves’s plan is modelled on Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. Looking at Biden’s scheme gives us clues to what will happen with Reeves’s plan.
Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is a trimmed-down version of his original “build back better” plan. That was an ambitious, New Deal-style mix of social and economic investment.
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