As Colombia approaches presidential elections next year, the US decision to decertify the country in the war on drugs plays into the hands of its allies on the political right, writes NICK MacWILLIAM
Build the movement against racism – build working-class solidarity
Today’s far-right demo called by ‘Tommy Robinson’ from prison to ‘free the political prisoners’ is a dark sign of today’s politics. We need a class-based fightback now, argues TONY CONWAY
Demonstrators during an anti-racism protest organised by Stand Up to Racism, in George Square, Glasgow, August 10, 2024
The move against alleged PKK members that sparked outrage as a community centre in north London was raided last year has now come to trial, writes TONY BURKE, but in the meantime, the peace process abroad has changed the situation almost entirely
A new report points a way to overcome complacent framing of climate issues, ‘by sparking a wider public reckoning with climate realities,’ and reconnecting with working-class people. IAN SINCLAIR reports
We cannot understand today’s world without understanding the rise of China – and we cannot understand China without understanding how it was shaped by the second world war, writes JENNY CLEGG
NICK WRIGHT reports from Italy, where 80 cities saw Gaza strikes as unions paralysed transport and massive crowds clashed with police in Milan — but France is also kicking off, and Westminster, in a very different way, is facing a crisis of legitimacy too
Escalating anti-China rhetoric from the West has a clear purpose – to manufacture consent for the new cold war, and potentially a hot one, argues CARLOS MARTINEZ
AS HAS often been said, racists see the problems we face through the prism of race. Socialists should see these problems through the prism of class. It’s only by accepting this that we can truly challenge and defeat fascism and its bedfellow, racism.
This must be our key demand on today’s counter-demonstration in response to the protest called by Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, (aka Tommy Robinson) from his prison cell.
Let’s not forget he’s in prison for libelling a 15-year-old refugee at a school in Huddersfield, fined £100,000 plus legal costs. He breached an injunction and repeated the libel and was sentenced to 18 months in prison. He is not a political prisoner. He chose to repeatedly libel a child.
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