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Being poor should be no barrier to participating in Labour
CHARLOTTE HUGHES was deselected as a Labour candidate for a local by-election for having an outstanding council tax debt. She explains why she hopes the party will change to improve working-class participation
While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE
Unison Scotland’s BRENDA AITCHISON says her union won’t tolerate further cuts to public services
The Danish Communist Party’s Lotte Rortoft-Madsen assesses the fallout from US threats to annex the huge Arctic island
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
I WAS recently chosen to stand for selection to be a candidate for a local by-election as a councillor.
As a well-known community activist, I was overjoyed and even more so when I won the vote and was selected as the local labour ward’s chosen candidate.
However my joy was short-lived. Following a meeting held by my local Labour Party Campaign Forum, it was decided that I would be deselected, because, in their words, “it would bring the council and local Labour Party into disrepute.”
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