Zarah Sultana’s recent brave criticisms of Labour from 2015 to 2020, including Brexit triangulation, IHRA capitulation and insufficient fighting spirit, have ruffled feathers but started an essential discussion, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Though cowards flinch
The Red Flag still flies from the Clyde to the Mersey, and whatever the current leaders of the Labour Party say or do, power rests with us, the working class, and our ability to say no to the corruption of the rich, writes MATT KERR
PRINCIPLED: General secretary of the Unite union Sharon Graham votes during a debate on cuts to the winter fuel allowance during the Labour Party conference in Liverpool on Wednesday
US baseless accusations of drug trafficking and the outrageous putting of a bounty on a president of a sovereign country do not bode well, reports PABLO MERIGUET
Green Party MPs stand alone in Parliament in defending Palestine Action against Labour’s proscription of the group as a terrorist organisation — an outrageous move that the Tories supported and the cowardly Lib Dems abstained on, writes ELLIOT TONG
Mass mobilisations are forcing governments to seriously consider imposing sanctions and severing ties — even in places like Australia and the Netherlands — despite continued arms shipments to Israel’s war machine, writes RAMZY BAROUD
What we are learning today is that fascism can come to power even when the working class of almost every capitalist nation is very far from achieving revolution, argues DAVID LETHBRIDGE
TONY BURKE explains how an internationally significant breakthrough for workers’ organisation and recognition against two notoriously anti-union global mega corporations has been finally achieved in Canada
ON Wednesday afternoons, dozens of socialists and trade unionists came together to sing a parting hymn, the Red Flag; it is a moment I will treasure for as long as I draw breath.
Our voices carried that anthem into a cloudless sky across the — for once — sunlit moorlands over the Firth of Clyde, as we said goodbye to my father.
It was a gathering of the whole family, some bound by blood, most bound in the struggle of the labour and trade union movement over my dad’s five decades of activism.
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