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Sheffield's organising experience shows how to build the labour movement
BEN CHACKO explains why we should tune into Sheffield Needs a Pay Rise's online meeting on Monday
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ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the government’s proposals to further limit the right of citizens to trial by jury
As we mark the anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, JOHN WIGHT reflects on the enormity of the US decision to drop the atom bombs
For 80 years, survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings have pleaded “never again,” for anyone. But are we listening, asks Linda Pentz Gunter
Labour councillor PAUL DONOVAN wonders why the right-wing party gets so much more media attention than it seems to merit
SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
ON MONDAY Sheffield Needs a Pay Rise is holding one of the most important yet of the online meetings and webinars that are taking place as the left adapts to organising in lockdown.
The devastating impact of Covid-19 on Britain – the worst-hit country in Europe – and the mounting evidence that the virus is hurting working-class communities hardest highlight the need to change an economic system so unable to protect people or even prioritise their wellbeing.
Yet the left entered the crisis shortly after heavy electoral defeat and the Tories are sitting on a comfortable lead over Labour in the polls. Our movement urgently needs to learn how to win support among millions of workers who currently see no point in it.
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