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Is there a rainbow beyond the riots?
Following the wave of far-right violence, people came together across the land, demonstrating that we are so much better than the racists would have you believe and a better Britain can be built, writes ALAN SIMPSON
THEY SHALL NOT PASS! Demonstrators at an anti-racist protest
in Birmingham, above, and in Walthamstow, London, below, on Wednesday August 7 2024
Brazilian workers are calling for internationalist brigades to defend Venezuela from US attack, reports WT WHITNEY JR
KEITH FLETT recalls ‘the most advanced political programme to appear on the left until the time of the Bolsheviks’
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY ask how an 80-tonne whale that lives 200 years is so resistant to cancer
Sixty years of blockade have not made Cuba collapse, but they have devastated it. While Washington stands isolated at the United Nations, the Cuban people are paying the price, writes KATRIEN DEMUYNCK
As Armistice Day approaches, with the far right hoping to use it to promote their own form of ‘patriotism,’ NICK WRIGHT considers the nature of conflicts in the 20th and 21st centuries and the different ways they should be remembered
LET’S start with the language and analysis. The tidal wave of racist gatherings that swept across Britain was designed for riot, not protest.
It isn’t enough to describe them in terms of mindless violence, working-class bigotry or plain ignorance.
Behind the ugliness lies an organised attempt to undermine British democracy, divide working-class communities and shift political attention from redistribution to retribution.
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