The mass movement supporting Palestine represents potential political power that the left must now embrace as central to its strategy, writes HUGH LANNING, ahead of this Saturday’s Socialism or Barbarism day school in London
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Democracy was not on the ballot: the Democrats made sure of that
In sordid tactics that ended up backfiring, Kamala Harris’s ‘nomination’ was the least democratic in history, while the party actively suppressed dissident voices online and its lawyers suppressed third-party candidates from the ballot box, says DENNIS BROE
Health Secretary Wes Streeting taking £53k from Tory-linked recruiter and outsourcer Peter Hearn’s OPD Group is a great example of how Labour’s rich donors shape policies targeting the poor – not their wealth, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
MAT COWARD recalls the communist and pacifist aristocrat whose commitment made a difference in the Spanish civil war, the Blitz and WWII Europe
Two months into Donald Trump’s second run as president, what can we glean about his policies towards Latin America so far, asks TIM YOUNG, ahead of this Saturday’s Socialism or Barbarism day school in London
Xenophobic hysteria over the statistically insignificant number of small-boat crossings deliberately conceals how capitalism manipulates population flows for profit — if we can explain that, we’ll beat the right, argues NICK WRIGHT
JOGINDER BAINS argues that the infamously cruel and calculated mass murder of Indians blocked into a public square and fired upon by the British Indian Army still faces a reckoning
The annual Fenner Brockway Lecture, hosted by Liberation, was delivered this year by Peter Mertens, Chair of the Workers’ Party of Belgium. STEVE BISHOP reflects on some of the highlights of Mertens’ address
THE election’s over and now it’s time for the excuses to begin. The Democrats will blame Russia, China, Iran and probably even Moldova for interference. Had they lost, the Republicans would have said the election results were rigged.
The truth is most voters are so angry with the way not only the country but the world is going to hell in a handbasket, they turned out in droves to vote against the centre-right neoliberal agenda, pushing the majority of Americans closer to poverty domestically and pushing the world to the edge of nuclear destruction in a foreign policy built on simultaneously waging three wars. Wars which Joe Biden’s treasury secretary had famously said that an in-debt, cash-strapped government that cannot issue disaster relief at home can afford.
The Democrats will now claim that democracy has taken a hit, but the truth is what is left of that shabby institution had already been pummelled by that party in the campaign.
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