SOLOMON HUGHES highlights a 1995 Sunday Times story about the disappearance of ‘defecting Iraqi nuclear scientist.’ Even though the story was debunked, it was widely repeated across the mainstream press, creating the false – and deadly – narrative of Iraqi WMD that eventually led to war
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May day elections were a lesson in how not to fight Reform UK
DIANE ABBOTT looks at the whys and hows of Labour’s spectacular own goal
FEARING THE WORST: Labour candidate for Runcorn and Helsby, Karen Shore, arrives early yesterday at DCBL Halton Stadium, Widnes, Cheshire ahead of the announcement of the voting result
RUBY ALDEN GIBSON believes Scottish parliament has enough powers to curtail Westminster Labour’s savage attack on welfare
KEVIN DONNELLY reports from Monte Faudo and its annual remembrance of the region’s WWII partisan anti-fascist battles
The Trump government is seizing overseas students from their homes and campuses and even off the streets, with no legal grounds and no due process, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
As global fascism grows, ROGER McKENZIE urges the left to reclaim May Day’s revolutionary roots — not as an act of nostalgia, but as fuel for building a ‘community of resistance’ against exploitation and the rise of fascism
Our unions need to make a firm stand against so-called ‘defence spending’: the boss class say there’s no magic money tree — and there should be no magic mushroom cloud either, argues NATHAN HENNEBRY
KEITH FLETT revisits the 1978 origins of Britain’s May Day bank holiday — from Michael Foot’s triumph to Thatcher’s reluctant acceptance — as Starmer’s government dodges calls to expand our working-class celebrations
ALL THE evidence suggests that the May 1 elections were a grim night for Labour. Just as regrettable, it seems that it was also a very good night for Reform UK.
As a result, there is very little comfort to be drawn from the knowledge that the Tories are completely failing to recover from their near-death experience in the 2024 general election. It seems unlikely that the final tallies will alter this overall verdict.
They key question is where we do we go from here? A responsible leadership would accept that it needs to change course to avoid further local government disasters and ultimately a national disaster in the general elected expected to be in 2029.
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