JOE BESWICK of the London Renters Union talks to the Morning Star’s new Left on Record programme
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Starmer’s Britain sleepwalks toward Farage’s nightmare
While Starmer courts BlackRock and backs genocide, leading to despair and historically low voter turnout, the vultures of the new populist right circle Britain’s crumbling institutions, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
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The unnecessarily violent police intervention at a Quaker place of worship is a PR disaster and will only serve to deepen the chasm between them and the public. SYMON HILL reports
ANDREW MURRAY wonders whether recent opinion polling and a fresh local authority by-election result in Ilford are an indication that the time is ripe for the left to make inroads
Due to the actions of this government, the challenges facing those with disabilities, such as spinal cord injuries, are nigh on insurmountable, argus RUTH HUNT
General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Bizarrely, Trump’s latest attacks now include the National Zoo, but his real and racist agenda is to strip everything black from the country’s cultural institutions, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
NIGEL FARAGE’S Reform party — actually a limited company — poses a threat to British democracy and we on the left must organise to provide voters with a real alternative to the Labour-Tory consensus.
Reform is on a roll, and it is kicking off the new year with its East Midlands conference on January 3 2025 in my home city of Leicester. A city where Britain’s minority population makes up the majority.
Just a week before July’s general election, a Channel 4 undercover investigation exposed a canvasser for the Reform party using racist language about political opponents and saying Britain should “just shoot” asylum-seekers trying to cross the Channel.
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