Trade unions need to step up and force a turn in the policies of the labour movement to effectively confront the far-right threat, argues NICK WRIGHT
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Chipping Norton doesn’t deserve Lord Greensill
The descendants of some of the legendary Chipping Norton strikers reflect on the events of 1913 and their aftermath, and the bitter irony of having the ‘Chipping Norton set’ and Lord Cameron associated with their town today
As the 90th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish civil war is marked, Teesside campaigners will gather to remember the local men and women who stood against fascism, explains TONY FOX
Whatever differences exist among international sympathisers of the Bolivarian revolution about its current trajectory, they should unite against the imperialist power that is the source of an enforced retreat, argues ROGER D HARRIS
Washington’s inability to subjugate Iran is an example of how it is trying to preserve a regional order that no longer exists, argues RAMZY BAROUD
US financial instability is exposing the limits of a dollar-dominated global economy — and giving the Global South a historic chance to build an alternative, says MURAD QURESHI
Deprivation is a fundamental factor in criminal behaviour that must be addressed but, KENNY MacASKILL argues, there needs to a major rethink in sentencing to tackle overcrowding
SO, David “Dodgy Dave” Cameron, ex-MP for Witney and star of a wonderful cover version of Pulp’s Common People (see bit.ly/CommonDave), is back — this time as “Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton.”
In 1851, the day after a French coup d’etat by which Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, president of the Second Republic (and Napoleon Bonaparte's nephew), proclaimed himself emperor as Napoleon III, Engels declared in a letter to Marx: “It really seems as though old Hegel, in the guise of the World Spirit, were directing history from the grave and, with the greatest conscientiousness, causing everything to be re-enacted twice over, once as grand tragedy and the second time as rotten farce.”
Marx followed by writing an account of the coup, his opening sentence also citing Hegel’s declaration that historic events and personages appear twice, continuing that Hegel forgot to add: “The first time as tragedy, the second as farce.”
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