IAN LAVERY MP says an immediate focus on raising wages and reducing costs must be part of a strategy to show Labour can deliver for workers again
A tour of Lebus, Seelow and Schwerin
by Henry Fowler and Ben Duffy
Lenin in Schwerin
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Friedrich Merz’s call for a new Plaza Accord ignores how Washington’s 1985 currency ambush destroyed Japan without fixing US deficits — China, a sovereign socialist state with 1.4 billion consumers, cannot be bullied the same way, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
World Peace Council president PALLAB SENGUPTA assesses the challenges facing the international peace movement and sends greetings to the Liberation AGM
KIERA MARSHALL says there is a gulf between the privileged circles in which most politicians move and the lives of working-class youth in left-behind estates – and as a newly elected Senedd member she’s determined to do something about it
ANGUS REID and ANDREW JOHNSTONE report on an initiative that we must take this summer
At last weekend’s International Conference Against War, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER talks to the Palestinian physician and politician about the struggles ahead to achieve a truly free Palestine
WELCOME to the third week’s instalment of our DDR Diary, documenting our travels around what used to be East Germany, or the Deutsche Demokratische Republik.
We hope you’ve enjoyed the first two weeks, we really appreciate you reading them and we’ve continued to receive great feedback, so thanks again. A big thank you also goes to comrades at the Morning Star for the support.
We are now onto the third instalment of our “redcation” where we visited Lebus, Seelow and Schwerin.
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