The annual commemoration of anti-fascist volunteers who fought fascism in Spain now includes a key contribution from Italian comrades
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How can the left take on the state and big business?
It vitally important for the working class movement to discuss, debate and understand the nature of the state, writes JONATHAN WHITE
The Islamic Republic’s suddenly weakened regional position exposes the nation to grave threats from US imperialism
DONG XUE explains why US tariffs hold no significant threat to China
ANSELM ELDERGILL asks whether artificial intelligence may decide legal cases in the future, in place of human judges, and how AI could reshape the legal landscape
Like pieces on a chess board, centrist parties lose ground as they accommodate rather than challenge far-right agendas — socialists must play things better, warns MATT KERR
Yanis Varoufakis and Jeremy Corbyn laid out a roadmap for peace, justice and equality as they celebrated the legacy of inspirational socialist Tony Benn, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The NEU’s annual conference promises heated debate, with motions on international politics, curriculum reform and union amalgamation likely to provoke strong reactions and challenge the status quo, writes Education for Tomorrow editor ROBERT POOLE
OVER the course of 2007 and 2008, two things happened that were supposed to be impossible.
First, the financial systems of the most advanced capitalist states went into meltdown as the big banks stopped lending to each other, each one panicking that they were all holding worthless assets.
Far from boom and bust being a thing of the past, as Gordon Brown and others had claimed, the global economy was thrown into a massive recession.
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