Trade unions need to step up and force a turn in the policies of the labour movement to effectively confront the far-right threat, argues NICK WRIGHT
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Boris Johnsn's fickle and opportunist ways were on full show during his tenure as London Mayor, remembers MURAD QURESHI
Broken Britain Boris: As mayor Johnson was heckled in Clapham Junction over the London riots
As the 90th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish civil war is marked, Teesside campaigners will gather to remember the local men and women who stood against fascism, explains TONY FOX
Whatever differences exist among international sympathisers of the Bolivarian revolution about its current trajectory, they should unite against the imperialist power that is the source of an enforced retreat, argues ROGER D HARRIS
Washington’s inability to subjugate Iran is an example of how it is trying to preserve a regional order that no longer exists, argues RAMZY BAROUD
US financial instability is exposing the limits of a dollar-dominated global economy — and giving the Global South a historic chance to build an alternative, says MURAD QURESHI
Deprivation is a fundamental factor in criminal behaviour that must be addressed but, KENNY MacASKILL argues, there needs to a major rethink in sentencing to tackle overcrowding
AS BORIS JOHNSON, MP for Uxbridge becomes a shoo-in for the next Tory Party leader and as a result the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, let us not forget what we are really getting — the next instalment of the Boris Johnson show.
While l was at City Hall for the whole of his two terms, my abiding memory of Boris Johnson as mayor of London was when the riots started in the summer of 2011. He did not want to come back from his holidays when London was burning.
It was the only time he was well out of kilter with the public mood in London and so much so that he got a very hostile reception when he did eventually get back to a public meeting. At that critical point the English riots of 2011 were very much a London affair before spreading throughout England. The London mayor was criticised by locals over the slow police response to high street looting and his sluggish return from holiday as he was heckled in Clapham Junction over the London riots.
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