From the 1917 Balfour Declaration to today’s F-35 sales, Britain’s historical responsibility has now evolved into support for the present-day outright genocide. But our solidarity movement is growing too, writes BEN JAMAL
Spotlight on today’s imperialism
JOHN ELLISON explains how the textile industry in Western countries was hollowed out by low-cost outsourcing at the behest of transnational companies
DIANE ABBOTT MP warns Starmer’s newly declared war on foreigners and scroungers won’t fix housing or services — only class struggle against austerity can do that, and defeat Farage in the process
Ben Chacko talks to ALAN MARDGHUM of the Durham Miners Association about Reform UK‘s dangerous inroads into Durham’s long-standing Labour county council; why he cancelled his party membership; and the political class’s disconnect from working people
Speaking to a CND meeting in Cambridge this week, SIMON BRIGNELL traced how the alliance’s anti-communist machinery broke unions, diverted vital funds from public services, and turned workers into cannon fodder for profit
We’ll be developing a people’s manifesto for the 2026 local elections. We’ll network, learn, inspire and support each other and chart a future path for socialist politics, writes JAMIE DRISCOLL
MAT COWARD rises over such semantics to offer step by step, fool-proof cultivating tips
MOLLY QUELL reports on the sanctions placed on International Criminal Court officials by the Trump regime, making it increasingly difficult for the tribunal to conduct even basic tasks
HALF-BURIED in the Guardian in late January last year was a “long read” entitled Behind the Label. It was an edited extract from Worn: A People’s History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser.
This extract — though you might not guess it from the title — is lucidly revealing and insightful about the workings of post-colonial, globalised, neoliberal imperialism with regard to textile production and trade between the Caribbean Basin and the US from the 1980s onwards.
One outcome of the changes that had taken place is illustrated by the fact that 40 per cent of all clothing bought in the US in 1997 had been produced at home, while in 2012 the figure was less than 3 per cent.
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