VIJAY PRASHAD examines why in 2018 Washington started to take an increasingly belligerent stance towards ‘near peer rivals’ – Russa and China – with far-reaching geopolitical effects
Thanks alone are not enough for our front-line heroes
Ministers and bosses must act now on pay and conditions to give a proper boost to all working families, says FRANCES O’GRADY
ROGER McKENZIE looks back 60 years to the assassination of Malcolm X, whose message that black people have worth resonated so strongly with him growing up in Walsall in the 1980s
At least 1.5 million tons of crude oil has been spilt in the Niger Delta since 1958, writes PAVAN KULKANI
ANDREW MURRAY surveys a quaking continent whose leaders have no idea how to respond to an openly contemptuous United States
Based on his experience of Haringey Council Councillor MARK BLAKE believes only a radical policy rethink will reconnect councils with the alienated constituencies they are supposed to serve
Last week the CPUSA launched a new Rapid Response project aimed at mobilising a popular resistance to policies enacted by the new government. CAMERON HARRISON explains
THIS May Day I have never felt more proud of the trade-union movement and the working people we represent.
It seems the whole country is beginning to learn the true value of labour. And demanding to know why some of the most important jobs in society are paid the least.
Health and social-care teams putting their health on the line to protect ours. Workers keeping the country going with food, deliveries and essential infrastructure like broadband and energy. And all those battling inequality and prejudice to do their jobs, like BAME workers who are at greater risk from the virus and those at the sharp end of oppression like our trans sisters and brothers.
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