YANA PETTICREW explains what’s behind the strike and how the entire sector rests on super-exploiting an unorganised workforce
Election Fever: A Fever Dream?
How can clinging to the Democratic Party — the party that betrayed the cause of working people — be the answer to the rise in popularity of its right-wing movement posing as an alternative, asks ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
BILL KIDD MSP says increasing Britain’s nuclear arsenal at this time is dangerous and expensive folly
ROGER McKENZIE asks whether the US’s shift to targeting everyone at once will instil greater co-operation among rising powers
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the government’s proposals to further limit the right of citizens to trial by jury
As we mark the anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, JOHN WIGHT reflects on the enormity of the US decision to drop the atom bombs
DIANE ABBOTT explodes the anti-migrant myths perpetrated by cynical politicians and an irresponsible mass media
WITH nearly 16 months to go until the US presidential elections, we are well into the silly season. The campaigning, fundraising, manoeuvring, plotting and mud-slinging have already reached a fever-pitch.
We are told that the 2024 election — like every presidential election in my lifetime — holds the fate of the country in its grip.
Maybe it does.
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