VIJAY PRASHAD examines why in 2018 Washington started to take an increasingly belligerent stance towards ‘near peer rivals’ – Russa and China – with far-reaching geopolitical effects
Can a left base be built after the election? The future depends on it
An election campaign marked by racism and a willingness for the ‘mainstream’ to enable it gives a strong indication of what politics will look like later on down the line. Can a socialist and anti-imperialist network be forged to counter this dangerous prospect, asks ANDREW MURRAY
ROGER McKENZIE looks back 60 years to the assassination of Malcolm X, whose message that black people have worth resonated so strongly with him growing up in Walsall in the 1980s
At least 1.5 million tons of crude oil has been spilt in the Niger Delta since 1958, writes PAVAN KULKANI
ANDREW MURRAY surveys a quaking continent whose leaders have no idea how to respond to an openly contemptuous United States
Based on his experience of Haringey Council Councillor MARK BLAKE believes only a radical policy rethink will reconnect councils with the alienated constituencies they are supposed to serve
Last week the CPUSA launched a new Rapid Response project aimed at mobilising a popular resistance to policies enacted by the new government. CAMERON HARRISON explains
IT BEGAN amid inanity and racism. And it ends amid apathy — and racism.
It began with Rishi Sunak mislaying his umbrella for the big announcement and Keir Starmer trying to end the parliamentary career of one black woman, Diane Abbott, while trying to stop that of another, Faiza Shaheen, from even starting.
It ends with a disengaged electorate disliking the options before it — and with Keir Starmer urging more deportations of Bangladeshis alongside the dominant personality appearing to be Nigel Farage, who sets the agenda without having done a day’s shift as an MP.
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