The annual commemoration of anti-fascist volunteers who fought fascism in Spain now includes a key contribution from Italian comrades
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Not the right stuff: Starmer’s pyrrhic victory
The Labour leader has backed himself and his allies into a corner with their commitment to scapegoating progressive politics — but going to the right won’t work for long if Labour is elected as an alternative to the Tories, argues JOE GILL
STARMER, ARE YOU LISTENING? NEU, TUC, PCS and UCU protest in Birmingham city centre, on February 2023, to protest against plans for a new law on minimum service levels during strikes
The Islamic Republic’s suddenly weakened regional position exposes the nation to grave threats from US imperialism
DONG XUE explains why US tariffs hold no significant threat to China
ANSELM ELDERGILL asks whether artificial intelligence may decide legal cases in the future, in place of human judges, and how AI could reshape the legal landscape
Like pieces on a chess board, centrist parties lose ground as they accommodate rather than challenge far-right agendas — socialists must play things better, warns MATT KERR
Yanis Varoufakis and Jeremy Corbyn laid out a roadmap for peace, justice and equality as they celebrated the legacy of inspirational socialist Tony Benn, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The NEU’s annual conference promises heated debate, with motions on international politics, curriculum reform and union amalgamation likely to provoke strong reactions and challenge the status quo, writes Education for Tomorrow editor ROBERT POOLE
EACH day brings fresh evidence that Keir Starmer is shifting the Labour Party rightwards in his effort to create a “patriotic,” pro-business, pro-Nato party in which members have little or no say on policy.
Starmer was supposedly elected on a platform of “continuity Corbyn,” promising to maintain the former leader’s platform of popular policies that won an unprecedented 10 per cent vote swing to Labour in 2017 after the party saw its vote decline in successive elections since 2001.
However, following the snap essentially single-issue Brexit election of 2019, the Jeremy Corbyn project of returning the party to its democratic socialist roots reached a dead end, and the party’s traditional parliamentary and bureaucratic elite seized back control.
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JOE GILL hazards a guess: Musk’s salute was a message to all of the world’s far-right legions: now is our time
From their apartheid-era childhoods to Trump’s inner circle, billionaires Elon Musk and Peter Thiel bring a colonial ‘divide and rule’ mindset to the global far-right project, where the masses turn on each other, writes JOE GILL
