The basis for 20th-century social democracy in Britain is gone, argues ANDREW MURRAY – but there are measures a Burnham government could take that would break with neoliberalism
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Lowering the voting age is a distraction
A Labour manifesto pledge to drop the voting age to 16 sidesteps the pressing issue of proportional representation and Britain’s democratic deficit, argues ALAN STORY
Voters queue outside St Andrews Church polling station in Balham, south London, before voting closes for the 2019 general election
TONY BURKE pays tribute to a dedicated trade unionist and true internationalist who helped organise workers from Britain to Bangladesh
NASUWT leader MATT WRACK says schools are crying out for serious investment — and there are other immediate changes a new prime minister could and should enact
Keir Starmer’s resignation speech seemed to be coming from a different universe, or maybe it was just a fanfaronade of falsehoods, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Starmer will be judged on his record, but it would be wrong to view him in isolation from the crisis of the British political establishment, says the COMMUNIST PARTY in its official statement on the PM’s resignation
Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela, while Britain continues its colonial theft of gold, writes MATT WILLGRESS
KILLING two birds with one stone is not an idea favoured by twitchers or ornithologists.
But it is a tactic that definitely appeals to handlers for political parties trying to shift an unhelpful narrative.
Those behind Labour Party leader Keir Starmer think he is onto a winner by promising that lowering the voting age from 18 to 16 will be included in the next Labour manifesto.
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