VIJAY PRASHAD examines why in 2018 Washington started to take an increasingly belligerent stance towards ‘near peer rivals’ – Russa and China – with far-reaching geopolitical effects
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ROGER McKENZIE looks back 60 years to the assassination of Malcolm X, whose message that black people have worth resonated so strongly with him growing up in Walsall in the 1980s
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ANDREW MURRAY surveys a quaking continent whose leaders have no idea how to respond to an openly contemptuous United States
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Packed with statistical information, historical analysis, topical commentary and political strategy it attempts to formulate an internationalist position that is both anti-racist and anti-fascist and capable of winning support within the working class and wider society.
This is a tall order. It has to grapple with the key conundrum of progressive and left politics today: how to integrate economic and historical analysis of class with the cultural elements of ideology (nationalism and identity) to produce a political approach capable of mobilising the support of the 99 per cent?
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