The campaign against the Bank of England’s ongoing theft of Venezuelan gold is gaining support across the labour movement and beyond, writes MATT WILLGRESS
The 99 per cent is the power that can change society
We should reject false divisions between ‘working class’ and ‘middle class’ – because united we are stronger, says RICHARD BURGON MP
The new Prime Minister must abandon decades of automatic support for US foreign policy, which makes us all less safe, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP
Claims that Nicaragua has abolished elections followed a headline that stripped Daniel Ortega’s remarks of their historical and political context. The full speech tells a different story, says BECCA RENK FOSTER
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MAT COWARD introduces some of the electoral oddballs of the political fringe who remain one of the liveliest features of British democracy, despite efforts to abolish them
by Weyman Bennett and Maz’s family
AS the debate around Brexit has heated up, there have been growing references to the interests of the “working class” versus those of the “middle class.”
On this topic, as on so many others, this is the wrong way to pose such discussions about our society.
Dividing the overwhelming majority of people in this way benefits only the powerful who run our society.
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