Trade unions need to step up and force a turn in the policies of the labour movement to effectively confront the far-right threat, argues NICK WRIGHT
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Hold on, Harman haters
She’s doing a fine old job representing the gutless mainstream of her party, says SOLOMON HUGHES
HOPE VIRGO of campaign Dump the Scales warns MPs voting today they should be alert to the threat legalised assisted death poses to people with eating disorders
The drift toward militarisation in Europe is not inevitable, left-wing and peace movements can preserve sovereignty and prevent war, says DÁIRE HUGHES MP
As the 90th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish civil war is marked, Teesside campaigners will gather to remember the local men and women who stood against fascism, explains TONY FOX
In June 1402 Owain Glyndwr defeats the English in a battle of Bryn Glas, a fact not introduced to the school curriculum in Wales until 2022. MARK SEDDON revisits the battlefield
Whatever differences exist among international sympathisers of the Bolivarian revolution about its current trajectory, they should unite against the imperialist power that is the source of an enforced retreat, argues ROGER D HARRIS
US financial instability is exposing the limits of a dollar-dominated global economy — and giving the Global South a historic chance to build an alternative, says MURAD QURESHI
HARRIET HARMAN is getting hated on for declaring Labour won’t oppose the Tories’ benefit cap. Harman also says Labour won’t oppose other cuts in their Welfare Bill, like a benefits freeze.
Something serious is obviously going on here, because words have become their opposite. The “Welfare” Bill is designed to make people fare badly, not fare well. And the Labour opposition has decided it doesn’t want to oppose because they don’t want to represent labouring people.
But I think the Harman haters are a little bit unfair, because Harman is just doing her job as she sees it: she is a conscientious interim Labour leader who wants to stand in the mainstream of the party. And she is only reflecting the policy of the party’s mainstream in not opposing anything the Tories do. In fact lots of worse things are happening inside Labour HQ, but Harriet had the misfortune to be noticed.
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