The mass movement supporting Palestine represents potential political power that the left must now embrace as central to its strategy, writes HUGH LANNING, ahead of this Saturday’s Socialism or Barbarism day school in London
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Stand with Latin America’s left
The renewed pink tide faces many challenges, but it’s also a beacon of light, says SAM BROWSE
Health Secretary Wes Streeting taking £53k from Tory-linked recruiter and outsourcer Peter Hearn’s OPD Group is a great example of how Labour’s rich donors shape policies targeting the poor – not their wealth, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
MAT COWARD recalls the communist and pacifist aristocrat whose commitment made a difference in the Spanish civil war, the Blitz and WWII Europe
Two months into Donald Trump’s second run as president, what can we glean about his policies towards Latin America so far, asks TIM YOUNG, ahead of this Saturday’s Socialism or Barbarism day school in London
Xenophobic hysteria over the statistically insignificant number of small-boat crossings deliberately conceals how capitalism manipulates population flows for profit — if we can explain that, we’ll beat the right, argues NICK WRIGHT
JOGINDER BAINS argues that the infamously cruel and calculated mass murder of Indians blocked into a public square and fired upon by the British Indian Army still faces a reckoning
The annual Fenner Brockway Lecture, hosted by Liberation, was delivered this year by Peter Mertens, Chair of the Workers’ Party of Belgium. STEVE BISHOP reflects on some of the highlights of Mertens’ address
THIRTEEN years ago, I saw for the first time the film The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. It documents, in fly-on-the-wall fashion, not only the 2002 US-backed coup d’etat against the Chavez government, but also its defeat by the massed hands of Venezuelans who came onto the streets to oppose it.
A year later, I was on a plane to Caracas, joining a solidarity delegation of trade unionists and activists to witness first hand the Bolivarian revolution being made in Venezuela. There were two central lessons of that experience.
First, solidarity matters. The revolution in public services, poverty reduction, and education alongside demonstrations for the government — unthinkable in Britain as politicians turned to the slash-and-burn logic of austerity — bore little relation to the headlines at home about anti-democratic and dictatorial strongmen.
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SAM BROWSE, of Labour Friends of Progressive Latin America, explains why it’s vital that the left in Britain expresses solidarity with a renewed ‘pink tide’
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