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No longer dancing on the pin of neoliberalism
Labour’s conference was the biggest and the best I have ever attended, writes CHRIS WILLIAMSON
While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE
Unison Scotland’s BRENDA AITCHISON says her union won’t tolerate further cuts to public services
The Danish Communist Party’s Lotte Rortoft-Madsen assesses the fallout from US threats to annex the huge Arctic island
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
SO the party conference season has come to an end with the calamitous Conservative leader’s speech. Theresa May’s monotonous monologue will be remembered as a metaphor for the state of the Tory Party and the brutal neoliberal ideology to which it continues to cling.
By contrast, Labour’s conference was a triumph. Jeremy Corbyn’s standing was substantially enhanced after he used his speech to bring a highly successful week to a positive conclusion by setting out a bold, hopeful and progressive vision for Britain.
There is a beautiful line in the seminal 1995 film The Shawshank Redemption when Andy Dufresne (Tim Robins) tells fellow inmate Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding (Morgan Freeman) that “hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
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