Danni Perry’s flag display at the Royal Opera House sparked 182 performers to sign a solidarity letter that cancelled the Tel Aviv Tosca production, while Leonardo DiCaprio invests in Tel Aviv hotels, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Cable Street shows us we have to tackle racism head on
JEREMY CORBYN on the lessons of the day the East End beat the Blackshirts
Jeremy Corbyn at a march marking the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street in 2016
YANA PETTICREW explains what’s behind the strike and how the entire sector rests on super-exploiting an unorganised workforce
STEPHEN ARNELL casts a critical eye over the sudden rash of challenges to the two-party system on both sides of the Atlantic, noting that today’s performative populist politics sadly lacks Roosevelt’s progressive ‘Bull Moose’ vision of the early 20th century
BILL KIDD MSP says increasing Britain’s nuclear arsenal at this time is dangerous and expensive folly
ROGER McKENZIE asks whether the US’s shift to targeting everyone at once will instil greater co-operation among rising powers
The Battle of Cable Street has a deep personal significance to me. I learned all about that historic event from my mother, who was there herself.
She told me how she joined tens of thousands of people from an incredibly diverse range of community organisations, faith groups, trade unions, the Labour Party, left-wing groups and others who had come together against the planned march by Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists — and the police guarding it — through a heavily Jewish neighbourhood.
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