To defend Puerto Rico’s right to peace is to defend Venezuela’s right to exist, argues MICHELLE ELLNER
Arise Festival: let’s unite the left resistance
After a summer of working-class fightback, the left itself must step up a gear — our conference aims to bring the various strands of resistance together, writes SAM BROWSE
Despite the apocalyptic destruction RAMZY BAROUD points to Gaza’s triumph of spirit against the architecture of genocide
We are demanding action from our politicians to deliver justice, fairness and decency throughout our communities – join us, says ROZ FOYER
After NGOs and the EU, UN condemns Germany’s crackdown on Palestine Solidarity, writes LEON WYSTRYCHOWSKI
It’s not just the Starmer regime: the workers of Britain have always faced legal affronts on their right to assemble and dissent, and the Labour Party especially has meddled with our freedoms from its earliest days, writes KEITH FLETT
Once again Tower Hamlets is being targeted by anti-Islam campaigners, this time a revamped and radicalised version of Ukip — the far-right event is now banned by the police, but we’ll be assembling this Saturday to make sure they stay away, says JAYDEE SEAFORTH
ON Saturday December 10, activists, politicians, and trade unionists from across our movement will come together for the Arise conference. As the government reels from crisis to crisis, the event could not be timelier.
After a decade of slash-and-burn austerity, and a pandemic which saw more than 150,000 deaths alongside a massive transfer of wealth from the poorest to the richest, we are now seeing a renewed and colossal ruling-class offensive on the living standards of the majority.
In his Autumn Statement, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt unveiled £28 billion in cuts to public services and announced the energy price cap would be lifted to £3,000 in April — as rising interest rates squeeze the indebted and rampant inflation swallows up wages.
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