General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
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'Capitalism will not solve the climate crisis'
The Communist Party of Britain has released the following statement today in response to the Cop26 summit on climate change
Climate change unequal impact
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Bizarrely, Trump’s latest attacks now include the National Zoo, but his real and racist agenda is to strip everything black from the country’s cultural institutions, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The transformation of a stable secular state into a fractured ruin largely ruled by Western-backed fundamentalists exposes the hollow nature of ‘multipolarity’ and the absence of principled anti-imperialism today, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Facing economic turmoil, Jim Callaghan’s government rejected Tony Benn’s alternative economic strategy in favour of cuts that paved the way for Thatcherism — and the cuts-loving Labour of the present era, writes KEITH FLETT
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As tensions rise in the Middle East, the role of Iran in the region’s political balance becomes ever more significant. STEVE BISHOP assesses the current situation
IT IS a measure of the pressure on Western governments — not only from their own peoples but from the overwhelming majority of developing countries, and even from certain sectors of finance capital — that the Cop26 summit has resulted in some international agreements so far.
In 2015, the Paris Cop21 summit agreed the goal of keeping the global temperature rise to within 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
However, since then greenhouse gas emissions have grown steadily, with the main component, CO2, now at about 40 billion tonnes annually and the global temperature rise currently around 1.2°C. To stay under the 1.5°C limit, emissions in 2030 will need to have fallen by 45 per cent globally compared with 2010.
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