A new generation of right-wing politicians have shifted from promoting deregulation to championing anti-migrant politics warns SOLOMON HUGHES
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Labour implosion is entirely self-inflicted
The “aspiration” of working people and a joint hope to create a better society has disappeared from Labour’s leadership, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
by the Greater Manchester Workers’ and Tenants’ Association
The US relationship with Israel has evolved into a strategic liability, argues RAMZY BAROUD
A champion motorcyclist, trade union organiser and communist, Clem Beckett went from Britain’s speedway tracks to the battlefields of Spain, where he gave his life resisting Franco’s forces at Jarama. GEOFF BOTTOMS pays tribute to this remarkable anti-fascist
The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
Claiming to ease a fertiliser shortage, the Trump administration has suspended tariffs on Moroccan phosphate imports – deepening US support for the Morocco’s control over Sahrawi territory, writes LUKE ROTELLO
DAVID MILIBAND is right. He said many voters avoided Labour because “They didn’t want what was being offered” by the party.
They did not want Tristram Hunt or Chuka Umunna or Rachel Reeves or Caroline Flint. They didn’t want the New Labour types who were among Labour’s leading lights in the election campaign.
Nor did they want Ed Miliband himself or Andy Burnham — the New Labour people who wanted to shift slightly to the left.
Meanwhile, incoming PM Andy Burnham dithers over who should be his Chancellor
As the PM and his chief of staff’s blunders have mounted up, ANDREW MURRAY wonders who among Labour’s diminished ‘soft left’ might make a bid for the leadership