ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians
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A hard winter — but will there be discontent?
People are facing a triple whammy of rising energy costs, a national insurance hike and a cut to universal credit — but with Starmer’s failure to step up, it’s now up to the unions to fight back, writes STEVEN WALKER
Has Starmer got answers to the energy crisis?
The obfuscation of Nazism’s capitalist roots has seen imperialism redeploy fascism again and again — from the killing fields of Guatemala to the war in Ukraine, writes PAWEL WARGAN
From Workers’ Memorial Day to May Day rallies, TOM MORRISON examines the real challenges facing the labour movement as Reform UK’s glossy literature exploits legitimate grievances in traditional left strongholds
Calls have been made for the return to Venezuela of a two-year-old girl currently being held in the US, after being separated from her family by immigration officials, reports SUSAN GREY
In the first of two articles, DANIEL POWELL investigates the causal aspects of the Russo-Ukrainian war as Britain commemorates 80 years since VE Day
THE mainstream media are already beginning a narrative about the forthcoming triple whammy of crises facing workers this coming winter. As a misleading distraction they are repeating the old trope about the 1979 winter and the role played by trade unionists in making it a difficult time.
Tories often refer back to this traumatic period as an example of wildcat strikes, reckless unions wanting to run the country and a Labour government hamstrung by its relationship with the TUC.
For socialists, this travesty has been challenged by an alternative narrative that shows workers struggling in the face of plummeting living standards, out-of-control inflation at a staggering 13 per cent and the unemployment rate doubling to over 5 per cent, with half a million extra people thrown onto the dole. It was a winter of struggle against a right-wing Labour government attacking the people who funded it.
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