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JEREMY CORBYN reports from Hiroshima where he represented CND at the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the city by the US
Greens need change to realise their promise of radical potential
The Greens should celebrate Corbyn’s massive victory but they also have to build a common future through co-operation on the left, writes DEREK WALL
SOPHIE BOLT makes an urgent case for comprehensive nuclear disarmament
Today Coventry’s Hiroshima Day Remembrance marks 80 years since the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945. Statement from Coventry Lord Mayor’s Committee of Peace and Reconciliation
All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionised in a historic victory for labour, says RIO YAMAT
Letter to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper – to be delivered by a delegation of Jews to Downing Street today
Laughter has always been how workers cope and fight back, but university-educated union reps now scold members for calling bosses ‘money-grabbing bastards’ and label everyday humour ‘problematic’ — this needs to be stopped, writes MARK JONES
THE Green Party meets this weekend for its conference in Bournemouth. In the wake of Jeremy Corbyn’s victory, what does the future hold for the party?
One view is that while New Labour was in ascendency the Green Party acted as a kind of wildlife sanctuary for supporters of “old” Labour, who would otherwise have become extinct. While Blair ripped up clause four, banned the S word and joined in any military adventure with George Bush’s cavalry that he could, the Green Party kept old Labour values of socialism and opposition to war alive.
Ever since Neil Kinnock rejected unilateral nuclear disarmament in the 1980s members of Labour have, over decades, joined the Greens. Perhaps now the Labour Party is led by socialists, we can stop being Greens?
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