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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The Corbyn leadership campaign: from novelty candidate to juggernaut
We should be in no doubt that ‘Corbynmania’ is the result of blowback from the static wretchedness of Labour policies and decisions over the past two decades, writes JOHN ELLISON
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
DURING the first weeks which followed Jeremy Corbyn’s electrifying arrival on June 15 as a shortlisted contender for the leadership of the Labour Party (acquiring one MP nomination more than the 35 minimum) he was treated by the weightier press as no more than a novelty candidate.
The “three main candidates,” in the view of the Guardian’s veteran commentator Polly Toynbee — who favours “centrism” flavoured with social compassion — on June 23, were Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper (ministers during Gordon Brown’s premiership) and, joining them as shadow ministers under Ed Miliband’s leadership, Liz Kendall.
Corbyn, never a minister, always a troublemaker, according to this perspective, could not be expected to be taken seriously by prospective voters. The bookmakers agreed.
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