The mass movement supporting Palestine represents potential political power that the left must now embrace as central to its strategy, writes HUGH LANNING, ahead of this Saturday’s Socialism or Barbarism day school in London
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Adelante! Trump, Latin America and the world: an inspiring and empowering conference
BEN CHACKO appreciates the largest Adelante! conference yet, and how much there was to learn about decolonisation and defiance across Latin America and beyond
Health Secretary Wes Streeting taking £53k from Tory-linked recruiter and outsourcer Peter Hearn’s OPD Group is a great example of how Labour’s rich donors shape policies targeting the poor – not their wealth, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
MAT COWARD recalls the communist and pacifist aristocrat whose commitment made a difference in the Spanish civil war, the Blitz and WWII Europe
Two months into Donald Trump’s second run as president, what can we glean about his policies towards Latin America so far, asks TIM YOUNG, ahead of this Saturday’s Socialism or Barbarism day school in London
Xenophobic hysteria over the statistically insignificant number of small-boat crossings deliberately conceals how capitalism manipulates population flows for profit — if we can explain that, we’ll beat the right, argues NICK WRIGHT
JOGINDER BAINS argues that the infamously cruel and calculated mass murder of Indians blocked into a public square and fired upon by the British Indian Army still faces a reckoning
The annual Fenner Brockway Lecture, hosted by Liberation, was delivered this year by Peter Mertens, Chair of the Workers’ Party of Belgium. STEVE BISHOP reflects on some of the highlights of Mertens’ address
ALEIDA GUEVARA, daughter of Che, leading a packed hall in singing the Internationale.
Diplomats from Cuba, Venezuela and Colombia assessing the impact of Trump’s trade wars and mass deportations on Latin America. Break-out sessions looking at the continent’s place in black liberation, the new cold war and the rise of the global South.
The annual Adelante! conference, held in the National Education Union’s Hamilton House HQ yesterday, was as inspirational and intellectually stimulating as ever, and larger than ever before — with the audience filling overflow rooms as well as the main Mander Hall for the plenary sessions.
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