Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights general secretary GAWAIN LITTLE discusses the impact of the US-Israeli war on the Iranian people and economy
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The coronavirus crisis shows that another world is possible
While the Corbyn era is now over, he must be content with the knowledge that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery: the right are on the back foot — and the practical necessities of socialism are now accepted, argues NICK WRIGHT
A worker for Birmingham council prepares food parcels for the vulnerable
Capitalism has extracted itself from crisis before, argues PRABHAT PATNAIK – but through methods no longer available. So it is turning to authoritarianism, militarism and neocolonialism
The five young men killed in the A66 crash were responsible for a devastating tragedy — but the crash should force us to ask difficult questions about wider society, argues RENATA MEDEIROS MIRRA
Britain funds the policing of black culture 16 times better than the culture itself. The Diamond Jubilee is the moment to end that, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite Andy Burnham’s declaration defending the continued partition of the island, all major international and internal trends are converging to make Irish reunification inevitable
Humans are part of the ‘animal kingdom’ – and of nature in general – but also distinct from it and labour (work) is part of what makes us unique, declared Engels. His insights 150 years ago into how our species came to be and how we differ from the rest of nature, are as important today as they were then, says the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
YESTERDAY’S party of fiscal rectitude and unrelieved austerity is today’s party of unlimited spending, unbounded subsidy and near-universal wage supplements.
The party which spent the last decade or more consumed with an internal division over Britain’s trading relationships and our entanglement with the federalising European Union found itself improbably reunited under “il buffone.”
With former prime minister Theresa May marooned on the back benches and railing against the evisceration of her economic policy and her predecessor, David Cameron, scribbling his recriminations in a designer shed, it took only the nod from Boris Johnson’s consigliere to despatch the fiscally orthodox Sajid Javid and replace him with a new, compliant and flexible friend as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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