Labour prospects in May elections may be irrevocably damaged by Birmingham Council’s costly refusal to settle the year-long dispute, warns STEVE WRIGHT
Nato: a history of the present
When the Warsaw Pact crumbled alongside the USSR, it would have made sense for Nato to disband too — but Nato was always about political control of the West, as well as defence from the East, explains KEITH FLETT
HENRY FOWLER and ROB POOLE explain the significance of today’s Megapicket
One hundred years after 1.7m workers shut the country down in defence of the miners, the struggles that sparked the 1926 General Strike are still with us – and will be honoured on London’s May Day march this year, writes MARY ADOSSIDES
The Labour Growth Group and its think tank partner, the Good Growth Foundation, have taken funding from major lobbying firms linked to housebuilders, banks and Heathrow – raising questions about corporate influence at the heart of Starmer’s pro-growth project. SOLOMON HUGHES reports
The fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, a registered nurse and union member, has sparked nationwide protests and renewed calls from National Nurses United to dismantle Ice and related agencies, says MARK GRUENBERG
A Vatican photo-op, a hard-right donor and a rhetoric of mass deportations reveal how appeals to ‘Christian values’ are being reshaped by Reform and Tory MPs, says SOLOMON HUGHES
KEIR STARMER in part justified his warmongering over Ukraine by underlining that the 1945 Labour government was in 1949 one of the founding signatories of Nato.
Not welcomed by many on the left either then or now, it marked a significant moment in the cold war between the US and the USSR.
Although it was framed as a defensive alliance, it first came to life during the Korean war, one of a number of conflicts in the cold war that took place outside Europe.
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