To the disgust of many local activists and Labour members, the Labour Party’s right-wing bureaucracy has suspended and restarted the selection process for the Labour candidate for Liverpool Mayor, as they are desperately trying to ensure they adopt the ‘right’ candidate. This selection contest follows former Mayor Joe Anderson stepping down from the role after his […]
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The Tory government has announced that the NHS in England is to be reformed so health and care services can work more closely together. A closer look at the available detail tells a different story. This white paper is a power grab by ministers, further reducing democratic control over services by proposing to remove all […]
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February 24th is the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s ground-breaking 1871 book, “The Descent of Man”, which situated humanity firmly within the natural world and not as some kind of special divine creation. Marx and Engels greeted Darwin’s work enthusiastically as confirmation of their materialist outlook, even though Darwin’s version of evolution, one of countless […]
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