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When the Tories scapegoated their opponents as the ‘anti-growth coalition,’ the left and workers’ movement fell over itself to say the opposite was the case, however IAN SINCLAIR warns we have known for decades infinite growth on a finite planet is not a realistic possibility
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DAVID RENTON talks to former neonazi, now anti-fascist campaigner, Matthew Collins about the costs associated with challenging bigotry and extremism, and his role in helping avert the assassination of a Labour MP in 2017
A statement from rights group Liberation on the question of recognition of a Palestinian state
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DR DAVID GORDON SCOTT tells the story of the North Sands Massacre, Sunderland, as part of the ongoing work of remembrance of those killed by soldiers during the 1825 Seafarers Strike and the bicentennial commemorations on Sunday August 3
MATT KERR charts his bike-riding odyssey in aid of the Royal Marsden charity and CWU Humanitarian Aid
“THERE is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle to be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.”
My main takeaway from Tony Benn’s wise words is that each new generation of activists and progressives need to fight and win the important arguments again and again and again.
Take, for example, former prime minister Liz Truss telling the recent Tory Party conference that those who oppose her government are the “anti-growth coalition.”
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