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SHADOW chancellor John McDonnell met some of Britain’s brightest economic thinkers yesterday in preparation for the Autumn Statement, writes Luke James.
Mr McDonnell convened his economic advisory council in London for the first time since its all-star membership was revealed in September.
The two biggest names, French economist Thomas Picketty and US-based Joseph Stiglitz, were absent.
Campaigners urge government to ignore profiteering oil lobbyists and help those hit hardest by rising energy prices
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
From hunting rare pamphlets at book sales to online panels and courses on trade unionism and class politics, the MML continues connecting archive treasures with the movements fighting for a better world, writes director MEIRIAN JUMP
As the labour movement meets to remember the Tolpuddle Martyrs, MICK WHELAN, general secretary of train drivers’ union Aslef, says it’s an appropriate moment to remind the Labour government to listen to the trade unions a little more