DIANE ABBOTT looks at the perilous political cul-de-sac Labour finds itself in
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Despite everything, the royal circus endures
In a disastrous period for the British monarchy, where even its own members want out, public support for the institution remains solidly in the majority. Sadly, that shows no signs of changing, writes NICK WRIGHT
The most obvious explanation for his departure is that Harry has had enough of the British press, life in the goldfish bowl and his toxic relatives and would rather raise their children elsewhere
DAVE WARD says the Employment Rights Act can be a platform to build back union power — but only if we can agree a common agenda
A new strategy from the Together Alliance links the fight against racism to the wider struggle over austerity and inequality, says BILL GREENSHIELDS
Linking the General Strike 1926 to the struggles of workers today. General Strike 100 national co-ordinator HENRY FOWLER reflects on his recent visit to the Bristol Radical History Festival
LYNNE WALSH reports from the Bristol Radical History Festival, where the defiant tradition of resistance shaped by ordinary people was centre stage
A new wave of austerity is being prepared, and it’s workers who will be expected to pay for it, warns MICHAEL BURKE
THE highly choreographed appearance of the future queen at the Sarah Everard vigil demonstrates that at least one pillar of our peculiar semi-feudal bourgeois state has its wits about it.
If this expedition was at her own initiative it displays a welcome sense of independence in breaching the unspoken protocols which govern the public appearances of the Royal Family. If not, it is a particularly hypocritical pretence in which her husband, our future king, is either complicit or if not, paradoxically an equally subversive enemy of convention.
The monarchy — which sits at the centre of the system of state power in Britain — has had a bad week or two as its collective family value systems and modes of behaviour are revealed to be a spectacularly bad fit for a year in which Black Lives Matter has compelled a radical examination of imperialism in the modern era and has tested the mechanisms for maintaining public order.
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