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‘Hard-working families?’ Do you mean ‘benefit cuts?’
It is not an empty cliche: ‘hard-working families’ was the harbinger of New Labour’s ruthless and indefensible attacks on the welfare state. SOLOMON HUGHES dissects Starmer’s weasel words
Keir Starmer pictured during his speech to Labour conference in Brighton
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
AT 12,000 words, The Road Ahead, Keir Starmer’s pamphlet for the Fabian Society, seems to be talking a lot but saying nothing.
Even Starmer fans found it hard to get excited about his “10 principles,” which were so bland any leader of any party could sign up to them.
Why would Boris Johnson, or even Margaret Thatcher, find it hard to embrace his third principle, which reads: “People and businesses are expected to contribute to society, as well as receive.”
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