ANDREW MURRAY surveys a quaking continent whose leaders have no idea how to respond to an openly contemptuous United States
Democracy and the Labour landslide
So huge a majority on so small a vote points to the widening gulf between rulers and ruled and a deep crisis of bourgeois democracy, argues BEN CHACKO
Based on his experience of Haringey Council Councillor MARK BLAKE believes only a radical policy rethink will reconnect councils with the alienated constituencies they are supposed to serve
Last week the CPUSA launched a new Rapid Response project aimed at mobilising a popular resistance to policies enacted by the new government. CAMERON HARRISON explains
TODAY’S march for Palestine will send an uncompromising message to Keir Starmer: there is no honeymoon for a government that backs Israel’s Gaza genocide.
Palestine was an issue at the general election. Four independent MPs have taken seats from Labour standing essentially as single-issue Palestine solidarity candidates: an equal number to the parliamentary breakthrough of the Greens on the soft left and not far behind the five taken by far-right Reform UK.
Many others came close, with Leanne Mohamad falling a few hundred short of ousting the appalling NHS privatisation fan Wes Streeting, perhaps the most frustrating result of the night.
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Long having been considered the ‘US’s backyard,’ Latin America is the crucible of anti-imperialist struggle – yet with the rise of China as an economic and ideological counterweight to Washington, we see a new phase of that struggle emerge, writes BEN CHACKO
BEN CHACKO appreciates the largest Adelante! conference yet, and how much there was to learn about decolonisation and defiance across Latin America and beyond
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