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IAN LAVERY MP warns that decades of neoliberal policies have left former industrial communities behind — but a renewed Labour commitment to working people could change the political landscape
New garden cities - old mistakes?
In the third part of his features mini-series GLYN ROBBINS examines the idealistic history of 'social cities' - and how modern versions struggle by being shackled to 'the market'
PAOLO SANTALUCIA reports on how an Italian region defies US pressure to end a Cuban doctors programme
HENRY FOWLER outlines the GFTU’s new 2026-27 education programme and argues that investing in trade union education is essential to building worker power, developing leaders and strengthening collective action
We need a government that invests in saving lives not destroying them, argues SOPHIE BOLT
More expensive by weight than gold, saffron is surprisingly simple to grow. MAT COWARD explains
The public inquiry is the result of more than a decade of determined campaigning. Now, those who fought for justice want the full story of government involvement and police conduct to be told, says KATE FLANNERY
The Durham Miners’ Gala is a celebration of working-class culture, but also a call to action — to rebuild workers’ collective strength, says KIM JOHNSON MP
Marxist geographer David Harvey describes the history of urban policy as "fraught with utopian dreams."
From Robert Owen's New Lanark and model industrial villages like Port Sunlight and Bournville, to Georges Eugene Haussmann's Paris, Ildefons Cerda's Barcelona and Oscar Niemeyer's Brasilia, there's a long history of attempts to build the ideal place.
In Britain the most ambitious effort to rethink and redesign urban settlement was the post-war "new towns" programme.
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