The modern railway network turns 200 this month and is currently one of the greenest forms of transport. But unless focus shifts from profits to people, Britain won’t benefit from it, argue ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
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Voting Labour after Corbyn
Until such time as a new parliamentary vehicle for the working class emerges, socialists should continue to vote Labour, argues MARTIN HALL
ZHANG HE highlights pressure coming from the global South for a more multilateral approach to global governance and a more equitable world order
A joint statement from Derby Indian Workers’ Association and Vox Feminarum/Women’s Voices
Employment lawyer ALICE BOWMAN warns ‘day one rights’ include an undefined ‘initial period’ and the zero-hours contract fixes create baffling fixed-term loopholes. If the Bill doesn’t work properly and deliver, Labour is doomed
The protests against the US presidential visit are over, but the public probably doesn’t know that new US nuclear bombs are now stationed here, putting us all in danger — we have to raise awareness and get them out, writes CND’s KATE HUDSON
In a speech to the 12th Xiangshan Forum in Beijing, SEVIM DAGDELEN warns of a growing historical revisionism to whitewash Germany and Japan’s role in WWII as part of a return to a cold war strategy from the West — but multipolarity will win out
IT FEELS like each day heaps new trials and tribulations upon Labour members and voters.
The party has opposed Tory plans to put up corporation tax, failed to oppose the Tories over their pitifully slow Covid response, the spycops Bill, and the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (initially, at least).
Then there have been rightward moves on policing, defence and the environment, a failure to back unions and workers and, in general, thinking that the way to win back the so-called “red wall” is to wrap themselves in the union flag and talk patronisingly about family and community.
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