As the ‘NRx movement’ plots to replace democracy with corporate-feudal dictatorship, Britain must pursue a radical alternative of local food security and genuine wealth redistribution to withstand the coming upheaval, writes ALAN SIMPSON
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Starmer’s top priority? Crush the left
Starmer’s top priority? Crush the left
Labour’s top brass fear they might not get the thumping majority some predict — therefore the number of socialists in the next parliament must be minimised, to prevent them having any influence from the back benches on an enfeebled PM, writes ANDREW MURRAY
The Guyanese scholar’s groundbreaking work revealed how Europe deliberately underdeveloped Africa while using its resources and people to fuel Western capitalism, writes ROGER MCKENZIE
By making Personal Independence Payments harder to access, Labour is creating another barrier for those already struggling with soaring care costs, workplace discrimination and prejudiced employers, argues RUTH HUNT
With Labour abandoning its base through welfare cuts and warmongering, a genuine progressive alternative is urgently needed but must avoid any whiff of Trump infatuation syndrome and national populism, argues ANDREW MURRAY
Ways of opposing the increasingly repressive measures from the British state against protesters will be discussed at the Arise Festival. BEN HAYES reports
The controversial legislation now threatens even more vulnerable people after the committee stage stripped away the key High Court safeguard that convinced many MPs to support it, writes Dr CAJETAN SKOWRONSKI
While the West celebrates Duterte’s extradition, the selective application of international law reveals deeper geopolitical motives behind the prosecution of a leader from a poor, exploited nation, argues KENNY COYLE
LABOUR’S first full week of general election campaigning has been overshadowed by the authoritarianism and racism of the Starmer apparatus, and the complete collapse of democratic norms and procedures within the party.
Now who could have seen that coming?
What had previously been Westminster insider understanding — that Starmer’s Labour is an undemocratic, mendacious and discriminatory project — is now common currency.
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