Councillor SAM WHEELER says there’s a tangible shift in mood on the left in the city whose mayor has recently become PM — but there’s no room for complacency
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Labour's candidate for North East Derbyshire Chris Peace
Communist Party leaders Alex Gordon and Lorraine Douglas deliver vital medicines in trip to besieged socialist island
TUC Cymru is playing a leading role in tackling far-right ideas in the workplace, says LAURA DOEL
A New Delhi press conference in which Sheikh Hasina and her son implied the new order in Bangladesh is a security threat to India has sparked fears she is planning a comeback. SIAM SAROWER JAMIL reports on the fallout
Two months of student unrest have forced out India’s education minister and rattled the BJP regime. Could this be the beginning of the end for Modi, asks Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary MA BABY
MAT COWARD says the heatwave is a testing time for gardeners — but he has some tips
WHEN Tory candidate Lee Rowley took the Labour constituency of North East Derbyshire on a 12.5 per cent swing in 2017, it shocked many in the political and media world.
Sitting less than 20 miles south of Sheffield, the constituency — which comprises Dronfield, Clay Cross and several small villages — was one where coal was once king.
Labour had represented the area since 1935, and it saw socialist rebellion in the early seventies, when left-wing Labour councillors led by David Skinner — brother of Dennis — refused to implement laws that would force councils to raise their rents to private sector levels.
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