Washington’s inability to subjugate Iran is an example of how it is trying to preserve a regional order that no longer exists, argues RAMZY BAROUD
The Tories are playing a supercharged version of the politics of divide and rule
It’s urgent to build real resistance to this government’s poisonous agenda and develop confidence in the anti-racist movement, says WEYMAN BENNETT
People take part in a protest outside Downing Street in Westminster, London, calling on the Government to scrap the Nationalities and Borders Bill
US financial instability is exposing the limits of a dollar-dominated global economy — and giving the Global South a historic chance to build an alternative, says MURAD QURESHI
DOUG NICHOLLS says the parasitic finance markets must be challenged or another British government could be toppled
The late country singer’s Imagination Library has put hundreds of millions of books into children’s hands. We should build on that legacy by defending the libraries at the heart of our communities, says BRENDA AITCHISON
Deprivation is a fundamental factor in criminal behaviour that must be addressed but, KENNY MacASKILL argues, there needs to a major rethink in sentencing to tackle overcrowding
MML director MEIRIAN JUMP outlines the recently refreshed library’s busy autumn schedule that ranges from book sales, archival exploration, community work with online education and the ever popular site tours
TONY BURKE surveys the shifting political landscape and the challenges Labour needs to address if it is to prevail in the 2028 federal elections
THIS week, two of the most reactionary pieces of legislation to come before the House of Commons since the second world war were being debated.
The Policing Bill and the anti-refugee Nationality and Borders Bill (NBB) were being heard and discussed as the truth emerged about the “party that never was” at Downing Street last Christmas.
While an institutionally racist (and sexist) police force was being given extraordinary new powers to limit protest and attack the rights of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities, the Policing Bill also targets Black Lives Matter activists.
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