ROB WARZYNIAK wades knee deep through a pile of ‘dead canaries’ of Trumpist policies which exacerbated the horrors of US capitalism domestically
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
Without evidence or Nato consultations Berlin’s answer to the Leipzig incident is a rupture of relations. SEVIM DAGDELEN examines why
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ introduces the background to a conference on defending Latin America’s sovereignty
The glacier collapse in Nepal is yet another warning that a warming planet is making Himalayan disasters more frequent and destructive – but the countries facing the greatest risks are often those least responsible, says LI YANG
Nick Blair is set to benefit from a hugely lucrative contract to ‘virtually’ train the British army for its next war. Like father, like son, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Even when tragedy strikes, Western media cannot resist the opportunity to turn it into a sordid propaganda opportunity, as the Nepal-China border tragedy shows, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
Trade unions should be at the heart of the anti-racist push for reparations for the historic legacy and continuing impact of slavery, writes ROGER McKENZIE
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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