SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
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200 years after Peterloo it’s time to fight again for democracy
In the face of an Establishment power grab, LYNN HENDERSON introduces the Politics for the Many campaign to reform our undemocratic parliamentary system
For 80 years, survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings have pleaded “never again,” for anyone. But are we listening, asks Linda Pentz Gunter
Indian communist leader MA Baby considers the chilling escalation of violence against minorities and increasing impunity for their attackers under the Modi regime
by Dr David Lowry, Institute for Resource and Security Studies
This strike is about pay and conditions, says CAMERON HARRISON – but it also shows workers have the power to disrupt the mightiest war machine on Earth
LAST week Boris Johnson and his hard-right government launched an all-out assault on our already embattled democracy.
Not content with trying to force through a damaging no-deal Brexit and letting Britain crash out of the EU on October 31, last Wednesday he moved to shut down Parliament to make it harder for MPs to stop him.
Earlier that week we heard that he plans to pack the House with dozens of hard-Brexiteer peers, including Wetherspoon’s boss Tim Martin and billionaire hedge fund chief Sir Michael Hintze — both funders of right-wing Leave campaigns — in order to help him force his agenda through the Lords.
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PCS senior national officer LYNN HENDERSON explains why the union is growing and taking more industrial action despite the hostility of the current government to workers’ demands
