While riding the No 3 bus in Glasgow MATT KERR has ample time to dissect the moribund Scottish Labour decline into near oblivion and watch intriguing bus passenger dynamics
The US liberal elite are lying about Bernie
It is still Sanders, not 'senile' Biden, who has the best chance of beating Trump — but the mainstream, ‘centrist’ media will say anything to convince voters otherwise
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Dignity is important to all humans, argues the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School, but it does not come about automatically. In a less than perfect world, dignity can accompany suffering, but the collective dignity of working people is achieved through acting together to change the world.
The US aim to reshape the existing order in the Middle East needs to be resolutely resisted, argues PAYAM SOLHTALAB
Concessions to Washington by the post-Maduro leadership in Caracas are designed to preserve the core of the Bolivarian Revolution not betray it, argue Roger D Harris, Francisco Dominguez and Mara Paez Victor. How the solidarity movement responds is critical
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IF you have followed the race to be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States you’ll have heard the argument a lot: Bernie Sanders, the social democratic senator from Vermont, would never beat sitting US President Donald Trump.
Indeed since Super Tuesday, when Democratic supporters in a slew of states voted on who should face Trump in November 2020, this assertion has become more prevalent — with an additional clause: it is former vice-president Joe Biden, not Sanders, who is best positioned to defeat Trump.
Even commentators who profess to support Sanders’s policies make this argument. After telling Channel 4 News he agrees with Sanders on “an awful lot of political issues,” Eric Alterman, a columnist at the left-leaning Nation magazine, said he fears the example of Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. If Sanders ran against Trump “it would be the end of the American republic,” he said.
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