JOHN REES looks at why the June 20 international anti-war conference is such a vital initiative
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Progressive patriotism: the historical detail is important
Socialist historian KEITH FLETT looks at an example from the past given by Rebecca Long Bailey in her advocation of ‘progressive patriotism’
Lancashire mill workers in the 1920s
ROGER McKENZIE highlights how health workers in DRC are struggling to contain a deadly Ebola outbreak in a region already suffering conflict, aid cuts and a legacy of imperialist degradation
Associate Professor BUI QUANG TUAN explains how modernisation and growth are helping to unlock new foreign investment in the Vietnamese economy
New workplace rights are welcome, but the survival of the trade union movement will be determined not in Westminster but in workplaces across the country, argues JOHN CARSON
Nearly two decades after leaving office, the former PM is still trumpeting the same futile militarism and failed free market dogmas. The question naturally arises: why does anyone still listen to him, says ANDREW MURRAY
Very modest growth in membership serves to underline the need for a change of recruiting strategies, posits NIGEL FLANAGAN
REBECCA LONG BAILEY is now officially the standard-bearer of the left in the Labour leadership election.
She is not of course some kind of “continuity Corbyn” candidate but a leadership contender with her own perspectives for the 2020s.
She laid some of these out in a recent article in the Guardian.
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