SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
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Deja vu all over again?
STEPHEN ARNELL looks to 2024, which will see 190 years since the Tolpuddle Martyrs and 200 years after the passing of the 1824 Vagrancy Act
For 80 years, survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings have pleaded “never again,” for anyone. But are we listening, asks Linda Pentz Gunter
Indian communist leader MA Baby considers the chilling escalation of violence against minorities and increasing impunity for their attackers under the Modi regime
by Dr David Lowry, Institute for Resource and Security Studies
This strike is about pay and conditions, says CAMERON HARRISON – but it also shows workers have the power to disrupt the mightiest war machine on Earth
THIS year will see two major anniversaries in the history of the working-class struggle in Britain. Both were considered milestones of a sort, lines drawn where the lower classes could either take their allotted punishment and lump it — or organise, agitate and overcome the obstacles thrown up by governments and their paymasters.
The point to note in 2024 is not how far we have come, but how we have been passively hurtling back to the days of Victorian plutocracy. In 2024, the right to strike, protest and even vote is coming under increasing government control.
Britain’s “Freedom” ranking has fallen progressively over recent years, as the Tory government sought to distract from its manifest failures by lashing out at a host of a perceived “enemies within,” including the judiciary, “lefty” lawyers, the medical profession, football commentators, subpostmasters, those who voted to remain in the EU, trade union members, the “undeserving” poor, “crap parents,” the National Trust and the RNLI.
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