It’s the dramatic rise of China with its burgeoning economy that has put the Trump administration into a frenzy – with major implications both at home and abroad, argues MICHAEL BURKE
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Unite behind Jeremy to defeat Tory austerity
From PIP cuts to the Trade Union Bill, Labour has repeatedly forced the government onto the back foot, writes DIANE ABBOTT
DR DAVID GORDON SCOTT tells the story of the North Sands Massacre, Sunderland, as part of the ongoing work of remembrance of those killed by soldiers during the 1825 Seafarers Strike and the bicentennial commemorations on Sunday August 3
MATT KERR charts his bike-riding odyssey in aid of the Royal Marsden charity and CWU Humanitarian Aid
JOHN CALLOW tells of the rise, fall and rise again of a young martyr to the early French republic, Joseph Bara, whose short life was elevated by Robespierre and, later, others for its emotional and ideological appeal
April 9 1928 – July 26 2025
OLIVER SNELLING, a south London stonecarver and yeoman stonemason, relates how he is helping bring about a new festival next month
IN SEPTEMBER 2016, Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the Labour Party with the biggest personal mandate in the history of our party.
He won with more than 251,000 of 422,000 votes. As John Prescott said at the time: “The party gave an overwhelming endorsement to this man [who] got more votes than Tony Blair.”
Since then he has framed the political debate in remarkable ways. But he has received little credit, both for shaping the debate, and subsequent parliamentary victories against the government’s ideologically driven austerity agenda.
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