SOLOMON HUGHES uncovers government documents showing hidden dinners and meetings between Labour figures and disgraced Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm, which collapsed after links to Epstein and sleazy influence operations came to light
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Resist despair: learn from struggles in the global South
ROGER McKENZIE argues that facing Trump’s victory and global crises requires looking beyond failed Western organising models to successful resistance movements in the developing world
LESSONS TO BE LEARNED: The 2020-21 farmers’ protests in India mobilised millions in the biggest strikes in history
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In the second of a series of interviews with leaders of progressive parties in Wales ahead of the May 7 Senedd election David Nicholson talks to Welsh Green Party leader ANTHONY SLAUGHTER
Oil and gas prices are rising due to the illegal war against Iran, but new nuclear power plants will only make things worse as their costs also escalate, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
As women dominate public services yet face pay gaps, unsafe workloads and rising misogyny, this International Women’s Day and TUC Women’s Conference must be a rallying point, says ANDREA EGAN
As the government quietly begins reviewing the BBC’s Royal Charter, the moment should be seized to refound the corporation as a truly democratic, regionally rooted public service, writes PAUL W FLEMING
Like the president in Wag the Dog, Donald Trump faces scandal at home and turns to conflict abroad. But the conflict with Iran risks igniting a regional inferno with global consequences, warns ROGER McKENZIE
I COULD allow myself to be consumed by a righteous rage for so many reasons.
The re-election of the tinpot despot Donald Trump in the US, the Israeli genocide against the Palestinians, the way that black lives simply don’t matter and the way that men try to control the reproductive rights of women.
Nobody reading this will need reminding that the US, a country built on genocide, enslavement and racism, does not see any of the thousand and one cruelties and deficiencies of Trump as any kind of deal-breaker for their vote. In fact, many appear to positively celebrate it!
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