ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians
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Corbyn's Labour and the battle for democracy
BEN CHACKO looks at how the Establishment's response to a socialist-led Labour has exposed the limits of British democracy – and how we ought to respond
The obfuscation of Nazism’s capitalist roots has seen imperialism redeploy fascism again and again — from the killing fields of Guatemala to the war in Ukraine, writes PAWEL WARGAN
From Workers’ Memorial Day to May Day rallies, TOM MORRISON examines the real challenges facing the labour movement as Reform UK’s glossy literature exploits legitimate grievances in traditional left strongholds
Calls have been made for the return to Venezuela of a two-year-old girl currently being held in the US, after being separated from her family by immigration officials, reports SUSAN GREY
In the first of two articles, DANIEL POWELL investigates the causal aspects of the Russo-Ukrainian war as Britain commemorates 80 years since VE Day
“THIS government believes the people are the masters and votes should be respected. Jeremy Corbyn believes that the people are the servants and politicians can cancel public votes they don’t like.”
“The people are the masters.” As we mark 200 years since the British state sent horsemen to cut down democratic demonstrators in the infamous Peterloo Massacre, Downing Street’s riposte to Labour’s call for a no-confidence vote to stop Boris Johnson shaping a no-deal Brexit shows us what the Tory pitch to voters to see off Jeremy Corbyn’s socialist challenge will be.
The Prime Minister is not known for his honesty and insulting Corbyn is par for the course for elite politicians, pundits and parasites of all kinds.
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