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Left against right: Corbyn’s suspension has already restarted the debate about whether the left should stay in the Labour Party and fight the right, or leave and form a separate organisation
SOLOMON HUGHES says even electoral defeat isn’t a deterrent to right-wing MPs: pro-corporate policies might lose elections but they can be lucrative nonetheless
Schools are at breaking point, argues NASUWT general secretary MATT WRACK — we urgently need investment in our kids’ futures
MIKE SCOTT assesses the AI threat to jobs in the first of a pair of articles on the problems it poses
Without energy and without a strategic partner, Cuba is currently fighting for its survival. While the population is literally sitting in the dark, the Trump administration is trying to definitively break the socialist project through economic blackmail. What lies ahead for the island, asks MARC VANDEPITTE
A setback for IG Metall at Tesla’s Berlin plant has ignited claims of intimidation and raised fears for the future of collective bargaining and workplace democracy, says TONY BURKE
The question for the media, in the US and across the globe, says ROGER McKENZIE, is will they do their job fearlessly and call Donald Trump out?
AFTER weeks of abstaining on key issues such as the SpyCops Bill Keir Starmer finally took some decisive action at the end of October. Unfortunately, but perhaps predictably, it did not mean fighting the Tories but rather sparking an internal war in the Labour Party.
Starmer suspended the immediate past leader Jeremy Corbyn because he disagreed with his response to the EHRC report into anti-semitism in the Labour Party, despite, according to the BBC, assuring him the previous day that he planned not to.
It remains to be seen where this ends up, but hopefully with the early reinstatement of Corbyn.
Who you ask and how you ask matter, as does why you are asking — the history of opinion polls shows they are as much about creating opinions as they are about recording them, writes socialist historian KEITH FLETT
While Hardie, MacDonald and Wilson faced down war pressure from their own Establishment, today’s leadership appears to have forgotten that opposing imperial adventures has historically defined Labour’s moral authority, writes KEITH FLETT
