General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
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Corbyn and the Cable Street connection
DAVID ROSENBERG recalls the Islington North MP’s record as an ever-present fighter against division, xenophobia and hate
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After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Bizarrely, Trump’s latest attacks now include the National Zoo, but his real and racist agenda is to strip everything black from the country’s cultural institutions, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The transformation of a stable secular state into a fractured ruin largely ruled by Western-backed fundamentalists exposes the hollow nature of ‘multipolarity’ and the absence of principled anti-imperialism today, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Facing economic turmoil, Jim Callaghan’s government rejected Tony Benn’s alternative economic strategy in favour of cuts that paved the way for Thatcherism — and the cuts-loving Labour of the present era, writes KEITH FLETT
The economic value of disability benefits far outweighs their cost, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
As tensions rise in the Middle East, the role of Iran in the region’s political balance becomes ever more significant. STEVE BISHOP assesses the current situation
IN OCTOBER 2016 I was the convener for Cable Street 80. Through two rallies and a spirited march, we celebrated the mass anti-fascist mobilisation of 1936 that stopped thousands of Oswald Mosley’s uniformed and jackbooted fascists invading the Jewish areas of London’s East End. Commemorations have taken place every 10 years, more recently every five.
When we drew up our desired speakers list for Cable Street 80, one of the first names we pencilled in was Jeremy Corbyn, a veteran anti-racist, anti-fascist activist who had won the Labour leadership a year earlier with a huge mandate from the membership.
He made clear that he intended to continue this area of activism on the very day he was elected. Minutes after his acceptance speech, he headed for Hyde Park to address a national rally in support of refugees.
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