JEREMY CORBYN reports from Hiroshima where he represented CND at the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the city by the US
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Overcoming the City: socialism in Britain
Speaking to Ben Chacko, ANDREW MURRAY outlines the themes of his new book, addressing the unique roadblocks the British left faces thanks to the dominance of finance capital — and what it will take to turn things around
SOPHIE BOLT makes an urgent case for comprehensive nuclear disarmament
Today Coventry’s Hiroshima Day Remembrance marks 80 years since the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945. Statement from Coventry Lord Mayor’s Committee of Peace and Reconciliation
All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionised in a historic victory for labour, says RIO YAMAT
Letter to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper – to be delivered by a delegation of Jews to Downing Street today
Laughter has always been how workers cope and fight back, but university-educated union reps now scold members for calling bosses ‘money-grabbing bastards’ and label everyday humour ‘problematic’ — this needs to be stopped, writes MARK JONES
IS SOCIALISM possible in Britain? Andrew Murray’s book of the title seeks to explain the five-year socialist project, and its failure, in a class context.
Corbynism may be “receding into the rear-view mirror” of politics — though the standing ovation Jeremy Corbyn received at The World Transformed on Saturday shows how popular it remains in some quarters.
But Murray’s concern is to assess which factors made the Corbyn project strong and which ultimately brought it down. And that comes down to class: “That’s the $64,000 dollar question if you like,” he says. “Can class politics be recalibrated?
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