Washington’s inability to subjugate Iran is an example of how it is trying to preserve a regional order that no longer exists, argues RAMZY BAROUD
Together, trade unions and grassroots campaigns can defeat racism
Building links between workers and communities can assist in the battle to dismantle racist oppression, writes GAWAIN LITTLE
US financial instability is exposing the limits of a dollar-dominated global economy — and giving the Global South a historic chance to build an alternative, says MURAD QURESHI
DOUG NICHOLLS says the parasitic finance markets must be challenged or another British government could be toppled
The late country singer’s Imagination Library has put hundreds of millions of books into children’s hands. We should build on that legacy by defending the libraries at the heart of our communities, says BRENDA AITCHISON
Deprivation is a fundamental factor in criminal behaviour that must be addressed but, KENNY MacASKILL argues, there needs to a major rethink in sentencing to tackle overcrowding
MML director MEIRIAN JUMP outlines the recently refreshed library’s busy autumn schedule that ranges from book sales, archival exploration, community work with online education and the ever popular site tours
TONY BURKE surveys the shifting political landscape and the challenges Labour needs to address if it is to prevail in the 2028 federal elections
THE mainstream media seem to have moved on from covering the Black Lives Matter protests which rocked Britain, the US and many other countries in the wake of the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police.
Papers and news channels which carried opinion pieces and editorials arguing that this must be “a movement not a moment,” and that our response to racism needs to be deep and sustained, have been notable for the speed with which they found something else to focus on.
Yet, if we look at our society — from the tragic roll-call of deaths in custody to the black children failed by and excluded from our education system, from the high-profile politicians (including the Prime Minister) who utter racist bile with impunity to the migrants whose lives are torn apart by racist immigration laws, it is clear that something fundamental needs to change.
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