Real security comes from having a secure base at home — Keir Starmer’s reckless and renegade decision to get Britain deeper into the proxy war against Russia is as dangerous as it is wasteful, writes SALLY SPIERS
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Retail needs support in this lockdown
Low-paid workers must not pay the price of tackling this appalling pandemic writes PADDY LILLIS, Usdaw General Secretary
The plan is to stigmatise and destabilise South Africa in preparation for breaking it up while creating a confused and highly racialised atmosphere around immigration in the US to aid in denying rights to non-white refugees, explains EMILE SCHEPERS
ALAN SIMPSON warns that Starmer’s triangulation strategy will fail just as New Labour’s did, with each rightward move by Labour pushing Tories further right
From the 1917 Balfour Declaration to today’s F-35 sales, Britain’s historical responsibility has now evolved into support for the present-day outright genocide. But our solidarity movement is growing too, writes BEN JAMAL
DIANE ABBOTT MP warns Starmer’s newly declared war on foreigners and scroungers won’t fix housing or services — only class struggle against austerity can do that, and defeat Farage in the process
Ben Chacko talks to ALAN MARDGHUM of the Durham Miners Association about Reform UK‘s dangerous inroads into Durham’s long-standing Labour county council; why he cancelled his party membership; and the political class’s disconnect from working people
Speaking to a CND meeting in Cambridge this week, SIMON BRIGNELL traced how the alliance’s anti-communist machinery broke unions, diverted vital funds from public services, and turned workers into cannon fodder for profit
AS WE head into a second lockdown in England and restrictions continue to affect all of the UK nations, it is crucial that low-paid workers do not pay the price of fighting this appalling pandemic.
The second spike in Covid-19 infections, resulting in pressure on the NHS and a deeply distressing increase in deaths means we understand why governments are imposing restrictions, but they must be implemented fairly.
Many low-paid workers, particularly in non-essential retail, face a double whammy of reduced income and greater job insecurity. Low-paid workers cannot afford to pay the price of another national lockdown.
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