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This morning on RNZ's Morning Report, Revenue Minister Simon Watts admitted that it was a legitimate option for 'landlords' to leave their houses empty. (Refer Revenue Minister on mortgage tax deductions for landlords , RNZ 11 March 2024.) The official ...

Labour has been in a public tangle and a private tussle over the figure attached to the pledge, BBC political editor Chris Mason writes.

On 1 August 2017 Jacinda Ardern was elected leader of the opposition Labour Party in extraordinary circumstances. Opinion polls were showing Labour heading towards a massive fourth consecutive electoral defeat in September. National meanwhile was ...

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Seminal essay from 1979 from Diane Elson arguing for the importance of Marx’s “Value Theory of Labour.” The essay was a product of debates within the Conference of Socialist Economists (CSE). Full PDF of the essay also below. Note: As Soren Mau pointed out, more than two decades before Elson, Raya Dunayevskaya suggested that we should speak of the ‘value theory of labour’ rather than the ‘labour theory of value’. See 'The Logic and Scope of Capital, Volumes II and III' he...

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<strong>Letters: </strong>The new advertisements are as panicky as they are unprincipled, writes <strong>David Puttnam</strong>. Plus letters from <strong>Alexandra Smithies </strong>and <strong>Alan Fairs</strong>

Will Labour's pledge to end tax perks for the rich if they win power drive money away from the UK?