Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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As after World War II, we can never go back
The coronavirus has seen the state mobilised in support of its people in a way we were told was impossible. Just as the working class refused to go back to poverty after WWII, we must do the same now, writes IAN LAVERY
An aerial view of (from the left), High Level Bridge, Swing Bridge, Tyne Bridge and Gateshead Millennium Bridge, which span the River Tyne in Newcastle. The North East looks set to become the latest area in England to come under local restrictions as coronavirus cases rise
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
THIS weekend would ordinarily have seen tens of thousands of Labour members heading to Liverpool to our annual conference.
2020 however has been a far from ordinary year. Indeed, as I write this I do so from a north-east that has had fresh restrictions imposed after cases of coronavirus reached worrying levels.
Labour Conference has been replaced with an online version — and many people are left worrying about what might happen next.
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