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November 2021: Labour Must Exploit Tory Divisions, The value of an effective opposition, High Wage High Skill Economy, Moscow and Belarus, Heather Mendick, The launch of T Levels, Fire and Rehire Bill, The reinstatement of Stan Keable, Useful Work for Former Prisoners, Who Recognises Taiwan?
Notes on News: Climate Change: US failure. China the Key? How to Ease the Climate Crisis. Parliaments the Least Bad System? Taiwan – the basics. Upper London Holds the World’s Dirty Money. Iraq: the Wrong Sort of Democracy.
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April 2021: Editorial; National Debt is an Irrelevant Statistic; Labour and the Housing Crisis; What Am I Going to Do Next?: Colleges of Further Education; Ernest Bevin: Labour’s Churchill – review by Brendan Clifford ; Ernest Bevin introduces the White Paper on Employment policy, 21 June 1944 ; Orecchiette; Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier; Notes on the News; Parliament Notes.
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March 2021: Editorial: Budget Battle Lines; Notes on the News; Diary of an ex-Corbyn foot soldier; Parliamentary Notes; Listening to Italy; Youth Unemployment; The Tory Party and the Labour Movement, 1891; Walter Citrine, Forgotten Statesman of the Trades Union Congress; Israel’s violations of the 4th Geneva Convention; Letter on Job Guarantees
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February 2021: Editorial: Reclaim the State; Notes on the News; Diary of an ex-Corbyn foot soldier; Parliamentary Notes; Listening to Italy; Youth unemployment – Part 2; Key workers; Israeli military intelligence analyst given key Labour Party role 10; British industrial production after the First World War – Yorkshire.; Under reporting of Covid-19; Caravan (poem).
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December 2020: Editorial: Starmer to Purge the Labour Party?; 2nd Editorial: An Opportunity for Labour; Notes on the News; Diary of an ex-Corbyn foot soldier; Parliamentary Notes: Left-Behind White Pupils; Listening to Italy; Popular Poverty and the Very Rich Persons; British industrial production after World War One; Young People and Work in the Age of Covid; What’s In the Report on Labour Party Anti-semitism?
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November 2020: Editorial: The Deficit Myth; 2nd Editorial: Corbyn Suspended; Notes on the News; Parliamentary Notes – Agriculture; Listening to Italy; Andy Burnham and the Lock-Down; The Jewish Chronicle and the Greens; Stephen Kinnock speech on the West Bank, & comment; An Open Letter to President Roosevelt By John Maynard Keynes; The TUC on Unemployment; Labour and anti-Semitism.
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October 2020: Editorial: A Dishonourable Start; Froggy; Notes on the News; Diary of a Starmer foot soldier;Listening to Italy; Brexit Withdrawal Legislation; Artificial Intelligence and Labour; The Wrong Sort of Jew? ; Middle East Eye interview with Jeremy Corbyn (3 of 3); A Comment on Modern Monetary Theory; Poems: Wake Up At The Back There, It’s Still 2020 7, November 2020.
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September 2020: Editorial: A Clause 4 Moment; Notes on the News; Froggy; Letter from New Zealand; Parliamentary Notes; Listening to Italy; The Black and White Knife Crimes of Working Class Youth; Jeremy Corbyn Interview (2) ; Ernest Bevin: Labour’s Churchill (Review); The Conundrum of Anti-semitism; The Many Battles of the 1950s; Liz Bates interview with Keir Starmer (from Channel 4); Poem – Everything Stops For Tea.
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August 2020 Special Issue: Editorial: Is The Tory Government A Russian Fifth Column?; The Leaked Labour Party Report on Anti-semitism by Craig Murray; Letters on Churchill and Fascism; The Labour Party Report on the Defeat in 2019; Guaranteeing an Apprenticeship Guarantee by Robert Halpin; Fear of China; Poems: Decapitated, A Little Matter Of Brainwashing.
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July 2020: Editorial 1: Starmer Sacks Rebecca Long-Bailey; Editorial 2: Brexit, Covid-19 And Labour’s Task; Froggy; Notes on the News; Letter from New Zealand; Listening to Italy; Governments should never borrow from; the private sector; Nuclear Power in Britain; Poem: Bad Hair Years.
Antisemitism, Israel and Annexation; More Witch Hunting?; Another One Bites The Dust; Starmer meets the Board of Jewish Deputies; Jewish Voices for Labour on the sacking of Rebecca Long-Bailey; A letter from prominent Jews to the Israeli Ambassador; Mark Regev’s reply; Labour for Israel’s letter to Regev; the Board of Jewish Deputies statement on annexation; Labour MPs (and others) letter on annexation; Avi Shlaim on Churchill.
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June 2020: Editorial: Starmer Under Fire; Parliament And World War One; Froggy; Notes on the News; Listening to Italy; Covid-Sonata; Jewish Voices for Labour; Jewish Voice For Labour On False Accusations; Jewish Voice For Labour on Reports; Why is Islamophobia Not Officially Investigated?; The Baby Boomer Generation; Elizabeth Bowen and Labour; Labour, Austerity and Antisemitism; Poems: One World Shivering, Claptrap Around A Mystery Patient.
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