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A tale of two manifestos
STEPHEN LOW compares the ‘smoke and mirrors’ policy proposals of the SNP to Labour’s groundbreaking template for real change
WRITING ON THE WALL: SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon meets voters at the Lochside Community Centre in Dumfries
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
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Behind the language of military strategy is a confrontation that risks drawing the wider Middle East into war, says STEVE BISHOP
The SNP have published their manifesto. Its 50 pages paint a picture of a party stuck in the past and concerned more with changing flags than changing lives.
The contrast with the forward-looking radicalism of Scottish Labour’s manifesto couldn’t be clearer.
Indeed even being clear is something that separates the two documents.
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