A NEW season of English league football gets under way this week against a backdrop of racist rioting across the country and large-scale resistance to it.
As stadiums open their gates and teams return to action with fresh hope for a new season, football fans now have their chance to add to that resistance, as they have done on so many occasions in the past.
As extremist movements grow on the streets and at the ballot box, the emergence of the Together Alliance points to a vital strategy: unity across trade unions, campaigners and communities, says TONY CONWAY
CJ ATKINS commemorates one of the most dramatic moments in working-class history
ROZ FOYER explains the significance and tradition of today’s St Andrew’s Day March and Rally
JAMES NALTON writes on the bizarre Aston Villa v Maccabi Tel Aviv scandal



