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1945: the image and the reality of the labour movement’s finest hour
An openly socialist programme with political demands is the only way for the the labour movement to regain the strength it needed to make the welfare state a reality, writes GARY SMITH
A Labour poster, 1945
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 movement takes understandable pride in the achievements of 1945 — the bold legislative programme of Attlee’s government which changed Britain, permanently for the better.
Decades of neoliberalism have still to undo much of the welfare state or to complete the privatisation of the NHS. When it came time to define the nation, at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics, it was the NHS that was showcased as the crowning achievement of this island’s story.
The onset of the pandemic has confirmed that, through the spontaneous outpouring of public support for the NHS through painted rainbows and applause for staff and care workers. The fruits of socialism work and are popular.
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The summer of 1950 saw Labour abandon further nationalisation while escalating Korean War spending from £2.3m to £4.7m, as the government meekly accepted capitalism’s licence and became Washington’s yes-man, writes JOHN ELLISON