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Does Venezuela’s crisis prove that socialism doesn’t work?
Despite significant success in wealth redistribution, continued dependency on declining oil revenues has limited Venezuela government’s economic options. JOE GILL is of the opinion that the ‘Norway model’ of a sovereign wealth fund could have provided a solution
Rebuilding Labour’s working-class roots and organising power is essential if the party is to recover, says MERCEDES VILLALBA
ANDREW MURRAY looks back at a damaging career marked by dishonesty, incompetence and revolting complicity in war crimes
Britain’s historic vote to leave the EU was a rejection of the political Establishment and the strategic direction pursued by Britain’s ruling class since the second world war, writes ALEX GORDON
Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela, while Britain continues its colonial theft of gold, writes MATT WILLGRESS
MARY DAVIS says the centrality of the Jewish community and the Communist Party to anti-fascism in the 1930s is too often overlooked on the left
THERE is a vast amount of crowing on social media about Venezuela’s hyperinflation crisis — not because of the genuine suffering of millions of Venezuelans but as a handy stick to beat the British left with.
Nothing pleases these quippers more than to find a quote from Diane Abbott or Len McCluskey from a few years back hailing Venezuela as an alternative to neoliberalism.
I lived in Venezuela in 1995-96, two years before Hugo Chavez took power. At the time inflation was 100 per cent and people rushed to the shops with their wages each month to beat the monthly price rises, clearing the shelves of essential goods. Venezuela is not new to economic crisis.
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