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Austerity has failed. Now it must end
Look beyond the headlines and the Chancellor's 'economic recovery' is revealed to be an illusion, says Jeremy Corbyn MP
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
A quick look at the BBC website shows it blithely reporting inflation as running at 2.7 per cent and hailing this as another example of the success of government's economic strategy.
But take a closer look, and a little further in the article there lurk some other truths which might not make such comfortable reading for the powers that be.
The other index, the retail price index, showed an inflation rate of 3.3 per cent. Not a success or good sign.
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