ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians
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The bid to mark communists as illegitimate, sinister forces is a bid to isolate the Labour left
Right-wing attacks seek to delegitimise the Labour left by associating it with a supposedly unacceptable non-Labour left – but as a movement we need to fight in unity, writes BEN CHACKO
The obfuscation of Nazism’s capitalist roots has seen imperialism redeploy fascism again and again — from the killing fields of Guatemala to the war in Ukraine, writes PAWEL WARGAN
From Workers’ Memorial Day to May Day rallies, TOM MORRISON examines the real challenges facing the labour movement as Reform UK’s glossy literature exploits legitimate grievances in traditional left strongholds
Calls have been made for the return to Venezuela of a two-year-old girl currently being held in the US, after being separated from her family by immigration officials, reports SUSAN GREY
In the first of two articles, DANIEL POWELL investigates the causal aspects of the Russo-Ukrainian war as Britain commemorates 80 years since VE Day
THE themes at Tom Watson’s Future Britain gathering on Monday night were familiar.
Convener Darren Jones denied the group was a faction before stating it was a coming together of factions.
Peter Mandelson helpfully elaborated, saying it was “a coming together of the TB-GBs” — supporters of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown whose rivalry dominated internal Labour politics from 1994 to 2010.
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