RICHARD BURGON MP speaks to Ben Chacko about the Labour right’s complicity in the Mandelson scandal and the need for a total break with Starmerism if the party is to defeat Reform
Ambitious outreach plans at the Marx Memorial Library
The Marx Memorial Library is a treasure trove of labour movement archives and tradition of working-class education, writes MEIRIAN JUMP
KNOWING YOUR HISTORY: (L to R) Cable Street battle memorial plaque; Placard at Paris demo reads ‘Bardella Ciao Ciao Ciao’ (Jordan Bardella the president of the extreme-Right National Rally) and is a pun on Bella Ciao/Goodbye Beautiful sung by the anti-fascist resistance movement in Italy in times of Mussolini and later adopted by antifascist everywhere: ‘O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao / This is the flower of resistance / And those who died for liberty’
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The PM says Mandelson 'betrayed our values' – but ministers and advisers flock to line their pockets with corporate cash, says SOLOMON HUGHES
In the centenary year of Fidel Castro, Cuba faces ferocious aggression from the United States — but we will not kneel, vows FIDEL CASTRO SMIRNOV
DR GLYN ROBBINS ties fights at universities and sixth-form colleges to the consequences of the market system that began a generation ago with tuition fees
This by-election could plausibly see both Reform and Labour defeated — but splitting the left insurgent vote would put that at risk, argues CHRIS WILLIAMSON
In the first of a series of articles, Storming the Heavens author JENNY CLEGG introduces the key themes of her book on the Chinese revolution
The far right thrives on division, but denying racism within the left only strengthens it. As we mobilise for the All Together March, real solidarity demands honesty about our own failures, argues ROGER McKENZIE
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