Climate scepticism captures the White House
WHEN PRESIDENT-ELECT Donald Trump selects one of the most notorious climate sceptics, Scott Pruit, to head the U.S. Environmental Protection […]
Endgame for Syrian revolution
DONALD TRUMP’S election on 8 November was welcomed in Moscow and Damascus. It was taken as the green light to
Trump’s victory and how he can be stopped
ON 8 NOVEMBER Donald Trump rode a wave of anti-establishment anger to become the 45th president of the United States
Fracking menace threatens half of UK
MOST PEOPLE imagine that their fuel comes from oil platforms far out at sea, or wells in the desert, far
Len McCluskey seeks third term
LEN MCCLUSKEY, head of Britain’s biggest union Unite which is also the Labour Party’s biggest donor, has resigned from his
Bah Humbug
By Mike Black WORKERS AT the factory that makes Humbug sweets are striking against their Scrooge employer. GMB members at
Strikes stepped up at Southern Rail
RAIL UNION Aslef has announced that 87 per cent of its drivers at Southern Rail voted to strike. These strikes
Sparks fly at Crossrail
CONSTRUCTION WORKERS at the Crossrail site in Tottenham Court Road took two days of unofficial strike action on 30 November
A progressive patriotism?
THE PROJECT to develop “our own progressive patriotism”, as Owen Jones puts it, is seriously misplaced, indeed a fool’s errand
Let’s have the argument about immigration
THE PAPERS, TV and radio say Britain is under siege from immigrants. They blame them for higher taxes, crime, housing shortages,
Labour MPs ditch free movement
PAUL NUTTALL’S threat to “replace the Labour Party and make Ukip the voice of patriotic Britain” seems to have thrown
Inside Momentum: their politics and ours
MOMENTUM’S DECEMBER National Committee voted to hold a delegate-based conference in February 2017, and to launch campaigns in defence of
It’s not ‘our’ Brexit
Trying to reclaim Brexit for the left is a distraction from opposing the Tory plans THERESA MAY and her three
NHS primed for privatisation, but Labour councils can block it
SECRET COST-CUTTING plans could force hospitals, Accident & Emergency departments and wards to close, as stretched health workers struggle to
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