Focus Can Help Momentum Succeed
By KD Tait SINCE Jeremy Corbyn’s landslide election as leader of the Labour Party, the grassroots network Momentum has formed […]
Briefing: EU referendum
THE referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union, EU, is now likely to take place no later than the
Catalonia independence referendum a headache for right and left
When Spain adopted its post-Franco constitution there was a fierce battle over the character of the state. The Right insisted
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Spain: deadlock after elections is a chance for new thinking
With new elections likely, workers’ mobilisations could shift the balance of forces THE Spanish general election of December 20 created
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South Africa miners’ struggles could end ANC’s austerity
By Jeremy Dewar South Africa, one of the world’s major emerging markets, is about to tip into recession. Its currency
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Cologne attacks spark racist backlash
We need to challenge the social causes of sexist and racist attitudes inflamed by the refugee crisis ON New Year’s
Saudi Arabia, US ally with problems
By Marcus Halaby For all David Cameron’s boasting that he has 70,000 “moderate” Syrian oppositionists ready to act as boots
USA prepares to double-cross its “moderate” allies
LIKE Putin’s strategy in Syria, Britain’s and the USA’s also involves double-crossing old allies and co-opting new ones. The case
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Putin’s strange bedfellows
BY crushing the Syrian revolutionaries and leaving only Assad and ISIS standing, Putin hopes to force the West to accept
War and Peace in Syria
By Marcus Halaby A COMMON view in the anti-war movement is that the current war in Syria is effectively a
Wage a genuine fight against sexism
By Joy Macready Labour Right’s “misogyny” accusations against Corbyn are a study in hypocrisy THE Labour party’s National Executive Committee
Motion: Labour councils should oppose local government cuts
A motion committing Labour branches to opposing local government budget cuts
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Local government cuts: 5 key facts
£11.3 billion will be cut from total central government grants to councils by 2016 From 2010-2015 council budgets were cut
Letter from Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell and Jon Trickett to Labour council leaders
Key extracts from the 17 December letter from Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell and Jon Trickett to Labour council leaders To
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How can Labour activists defend local services?
A local government worker responds to Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell’s recent letter setting out their policy in relation to
Defying the press onslaught
There has been no let up in the coordinated smear operation against Corbyn “First they ignore you, then they laugh
The Tories are bankrupting our NHS
By Bernie McAdam The NHS is heading for annual deficits of £2 billion, with regulators calling it the worst crisis
United we stand?
The commitment of our union leaders to the new politics is under scrutiny WITH the election of Jeremy Corbyn we
Student nurses on the march against bursary cuts
In yet another fightback against Tory NHS cuts, over a thousand student nurses marched through central London on 9 January
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Doctors strike opens new front in fight to save NHS
By Bernie McAdam Labour movement solidarity can stop Hunt imposing unsafe contract AS the Tories continue their slashing of NHS
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