SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
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Starmer: a Conservative leader of the Labour Party
How can a Labour Party whose leader's politics and character are indistinguishable from the Tories hope to be recognised as an alternative by Britain's struggling masses, asks BHABANI SHANKAR NAYAK
For 80 years, survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings have pleaded “never again,” for anyone. But are we listening, asks Linda Pentz Gunter
Indian communist leader MA Baby considers the chilling escalation of violence against minorities and increasing impunity for their attackers under the Modi regime
by Dr David Lowry, Institute for Resource and Security Studies
This strike is about pay and conditions, says CAMERON HARRISON – but it also shows workers have the power to disrupt the mightiest war machine on Earth
AFTER Jeremy Corbyn’s resignation, on April 4 2020 Sir Keir Starmer defeated Rebecca Long Bailey and Lisa Nandy in the Labour leadership election with more than 56 per cent of the vote.
Since then, he has been leading with a promise to unite the different ideological factions of the party.
There is an unfathomable political gap between this promise and his practice. He is pushing Labour in a direction where it is difficult to distinguish it from the Conservative Party.
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