ROGER McKENZIE highlights how health workers in DRC are struggling to contain a deadly Ebola outbreak in a region already suffering conflict, aid cuts and a legacy of imperialist degradation
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Reclaim the rebel rep
Somehow Johnson did a better job of framing himself as anti-Establishment than Corbyn — CHELLEY RYAN explains how
INSURGENT: How did a lifelong political subversive like Corbyn come to be seen as part of the Westminster Establishment?
JOHN REES looks at why the June 20 international anti-war conference is such a vital initiative
Associate Professor BUI QUANG TUAN explains how modernisation and growth are helping to unlock new foreign investment in the Vietnamese economy
New workplace rights are welcome, but the survival of the trade union movement will be determined not in Westminster but in workplaces across the country, argues JOHN CARSON
Nearly two decades after leaving office, the former PM is still trumpeting the same futile militarism and failed free market dogmas. The question naturally arises: why does anyone still listen to him, says ANDREW MURRAY
Very modest growth in membership serves to underline the need for a change of recruiting strategies, posits NIGEL FLANAGAN
BACK in the dark post-general election days of 2015 when Labour had just suffered its second defeat in five years, there was a group of people within our own party who could barely conceal their delight over our loss.
For them this represented a golden opportunity to take our party back to the unequivocal right. In those pre-Corbyn days, Ed Miliband, or “Red Ed” as the red tops liked to call him, was too left-wing for these people. His policy on the mansion tax and non-doms was the politics of envy and it had stopped us winning a resounding victory.
Of course many of us knew this was bollocks. What lost us the election was an uninspiring, incongruent manifesto that was neither fish nor fowl. Less red and more an ugly shade of fuscia. For every inspiring policy there was an Establishment-appeasing policy to cancel it out. Our voters just stayed at home.
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