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Corbyn’s ‘Build it in Britain’ speech
JEREMY CORBYN’S Birmingham launch of Labour’s ‘Build it in Britain’ campaign has been welcomed by many Labour Party members as…
Trump visits UK, calls for hard Brexit
By Dave Stockton US PRESIDENT Donald Trump flew in fresh from provoking his Nato Allies in Brussels to a Britain…
Theresa May’s Chequered Brexit
By KD Tait After warning mutinous backbenchers that a divided Tory party risks paving the way for a Jeremy Corbyn-led…
Leeds antifascists confront Tommy Robinson supporters
Rob Schofield reports on the recent antifascist action in Leeds TOMMY ROBINSON supporters were sent home from Leeds with their…
What are the prospects for AMLO’s “Mexican revolution”?
By Dave Stockton THE LANDSLIDE victory on 1 July of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as AMLO for short, with…
Turkey: Elections extend Erdogan’s power
By Svenja Spunck THE HEADLINE results of Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections are that Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won the…
Trump claims “victory” at Nato summit
By Dave Stockton Donald Trump claimed victory over his European allies at the Nato heads of government conference in Brussels…
The left’s Brexit debate is nasty, dangerous and narrow
By Simon Hannah THE FIGHT over whether to leave the European Union is increasing in tempo. Hundreds of thousands marched…
Pakistan: Taliban attack Pashtun movement
By Hassan Raza, Revolutionary Socialist Movement Pakistan The Pashtun Protection Movement, PTM, is already changing the political landscape in Pakistan….
We need to resist the rise of the far right
By KD Tait DONALD TRUMP’S long anticipated UK visit will take place on 13 July, immediately after a consultation with…
Labour witch-hunt is undermining the fight against antisemitism
By KD Tait KEN LIVINGSTONE has resigned from the Labour Party, days before a formal disciplinary process was due to…
Labour must come clean on Brexit
By Peter Main THIS MONTH sees the second anniversary of the “Brexit Referendum” and, a few days later, the opening…
Defrosting Unison
By Jeremy Dewar LOCAL GOVERNMENT officers, health workers and school support staff will gather in Brighton in mid-June ostensibly to…
Fight for five – civil servants launch pay campaign
By a PCS activist THE Public and Commercial Services union’s annual conference in May voted by a huge majority to…
Brazil: The truck drivers’ uprising
By Pericles da Lima, Liga Socialista IN THE last days of May almost nothing moved in Brazil. Crucial economic links…
#OurUCU for rank and file democracy
By Rebecca Anderson DELEGATES TO UCU’s 2018 congress witnessed an unprecedented attack on their democratic rights by the union leadership….
Prague 1968: Revolution and counter-revolution
By Dave Stockton THE YEAR 1968 was one of history’s “mad years” like 1848, 1917-18, 1989 and, most recently, 2011….
Fascists march unopposed in Leeds
By Dan Jones ONE WEEK after Tommy Robinson was sentenced to 13 months’ prison for contempt of court at Leeds…
Football Lads Alliance: know your enemy
By Jeremy Dewar SINCE THE heyday of the National Front in the 1970s, British Nazis have always dreamt of lashing…
Paul Mason’s fully automated reformism
Assad to repossess Syria’s graveyards
By Katie Pelikanou THE SYRIAN regime is undertaking a thinly-veiled legal manoeuvre to punish the millions of refugees who have…
The NHS at 70: Labour’s tarnished jewel
JUNE 5 2018 is the 70th anniversary of the National Health Service – the jewel in the crown of the…
Italy: For a united front against racism
By Dave Stockton AFTER NEARLY three months of negotiations, a coalition government has been formed in Italy between the Five…
Spain: Sánchez ousts Rajoy but what next?
By Dave Stockton PEDRO SANCHEZ, leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), is now in the Moncloa Palace as…
Film Review: In The Intense Now (No Intenso Agora)
João Moreira Salles’ thoughtful cinematic essay No Intenso Agora begins with Charles de Gaulle’s address to France on New Year’s…
Labour should step up the pressure to end UK support for Israel’s war crimes
By KD Tait This year marks 70 years since the foundation of Israel and the Nakba, in which more than…
Israel celebrates Trump’s ‘present’ with fresh slaughter in Gaza
Red Flag Statement ISRAEL HAS celebrated the opening of Donald Trump’s Embassy in Jerusalem with a bloodbath, by massacring at…
Assad’s gas habit and the West’s immoral “red lines”
By Marcus Halaby “Why would Bashar al-Assad have gassed his own people when he was already winning the war?” This…
Trump-Kim summit, the latest gambit in the “Great Game”
By Peter Main THE NEWS that the US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, has returned from his talks with Kim…
After the Windrush scandal – fight for citizenship rights for all
By Dave Stockton FIVE HUNDRED people, a large number of them of black Caribbean heritage, held a noisy rally outside…