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Together we must turn the tide against the far-right menace
JULIE SHERRY looks ahead to this weekend’s Stand Up to Racism and trade unions conference that will play a vital part in developing the urgent anti-fascist fightback
People join civil society groups led by Stand Up To Racism during a counter-protest against a far-right rally endorsed by ‘Tommy Robinson’ in central London, October 26, 2024
RAINER RUPP examines former CIA analyst Larry Johnson’s description of the US operation to kidnap Nicolas Maduro as a tactically successful but strategically disastrous move, with shades of Bush’s disastrous intervention in Iraq
When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Western outrage was absolute. Yet today, the tone is markedly more subdued regarding US aggression against Venezuela. The manner in which the media and politicians frame this invasion exposes a profound ideological double standard, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
STEPHEN LOW looks at the SNP plans for public services
The Employment Rights Act 2025 marks the biggest expansion of workplace protections in a generation. But with key reforms delayed and crucial details still to be decided, unions must remain vigilant to ensure this landmark law fulfils its transformative promise, says ANDY McDONALD MP
After 15 years of spending cuts and regressive redistribution, the British economy is weaker, investment is still anaemic and living standards are stalled – yet all major parties remain committed to a policy that has repeatedly failed to deliver recovery, says MICHAEL BURKE
2025 has hit us like a juggernaut. From Donald Trump’s inauguration, Elon Musk’s Nazi salute livestreamed to the world just days before Holocaust Memorial Day when we pledge “never again” and remember the millions murdered by the Nazis, to the AfD, a fascist-led party, winning 21 per cent of vote in Germany just weeks later, we find ourselves in a new phase of the growing threat of the far right internationally.
This year’s annual Stand Up to Racism and TUC-backed trade union conference on Saturday March 1, “Countering the Rise of the Far Right”, is far from a run-of-the-mill event. Instead, 2025’s event is an emergency conference to come together across unions, sectors and workplaces and urgently discuss building strong and active anti-racism and anti-fascism rooted in the organised working class.
The conference will hear from general secretaries and national speakers from nine trade unions and the TUC, alongside trade union and anti-fascist speakers from Germany, journalist and historian Taj Ali, film-maker Felipe Bustos Sierra, who directed Nae Pasaran and will be showing a preview of his current project, Everybody to Kenmure Street, which explores the mass action in May 2021 that stopped a deportation in Glasgow.
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