The sheer number present on the day, estimated at half a million, points to organisational acumen and bodes well for developing the movement, says DIANE ABBOTT
Those with the broadest shoulders should be the ones paying for the crisis
The virus itself might not discriminate, but it has clearly – and often tragically – highlighted pre-existing inequalities in society, says LAURA SMITH
Shoppers walk past boarded up shops in Sheffield
A packed fringe meeting at the National Education Union conference heard from Iranian teachers, campaigners and journalists
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the US is tightening the noose to destroy Cuban socialism — the need for immediate, international solidarity is urgent
MAT COWARD recommends a crop that keeps growing well under drought conditions
Cypriot lawyer and former central committee member of the Progressive Working People’s Party (Akel) TOUMAZOS TSIELEPIS discusses the case for expelling the British military from Cyprus
US aggression has plunged us into an energy price crisis that will spark steep inflation across the board — and the shock will be much worse than in the 1970s, warns MICHAEL BURKE
IN A week where Jacob Rees-Mogg has dismissed the British public for “carping on” about struggling to get coronavirus tests, and Chris Grayling has been hired as an adviser to the owner of Britain’s top ports on £100,000 a year for around seven hours a week, there has never been a more urgent time to build class solidarity.
The inequality in this country is blatant and the ruling class aren’t even attempting to hide it, so great is their belief that we will continue to let them get away with it.
Millions of people across Britain will be facing unemployment alongside continuing demands for rent, utilities and debt payments as well as the worry of a second wave of coronavirus.
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