Fertiliser chaos triggered by Gulf conflict could send prices soaring and leave millions facing devastating hunger, writes DYLAN MURPHY
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The old ‘new parties’ of the left
As the prospect of an alternative to Labour looms thanks to Keir Starmer’s purge of leftwingers, ANDREW MURRAY reviews the fortunes of similar attempts made in the last 30 years
George Galloway celebrates his win as Respect MP in the Bradford West by-election, 2012
A surge in futures activity minutes before news of US–Iran talks has led to questions about insider trading and oversight gaps, writes CJ ATKINS
Washington’s response to a downed jet shows a superpower still reaching for overwhelming force even as its wars repeatedly fail, says NICK WRIGHT
With attacks on industry, healthcare and education intensifying, JAMSHID AHMADI warns of a deliberate drive to cripple Iran and calls for urgent global action
Argentinians commemorated the 50th anniversary of the military dictatorship that left 30,000 people killed or ‘disappeared.’ BERT SCHOUWENBURG reports
In Voices of Scotland YANA PETTICREW looks at the crippling deterioration of working-class art provision and support
AN unavoidable consequence of Keir Starmer’s evisceration of the left in the Labour Party, with an authoritarian brutality unprecedented in the party’s history, is the resurrection of ideas of forming a new party of socialists.
That is a well-trodden road. The novelty today lies not only in the undemocratic atrocities of the Starmer regime — the vetoes, proscriptions, purging and blocking — but the background of the great groundswell of support for radical policies of the Corbyn years. That is a movement now looking for a home.
Does this make a new socialist party viable? There is a heavy legacy of failure to overcome.
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VINCE MILLS gathers some sobering facts that would inevitably be major obstacles to any such initiative