Trade unions need to step up and force a turn in the policies of the labour movement to effectively confront the far-right threat, argues NICK WRIGHT
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Tom Maguire: a man of the working class and for the working class
RICHARD BURGON pays tribute to a legendary socialist from Leeds
As the 90th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish civil war is marked, Teesside campaigners will gather to remember the local men and women who stood against fascism, explains TONY FOX
Whatever differences exist among international sympathisers of the Bolivarian revolution about its current trajectory, they should unite against the imperialist power that is the source of an enforced retreat, argues ROGER D HARRIS
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
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
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
ON Saturday, Unite the Union general secretary Len McCluskey will be delivering the inaugural Tom Maguire Lecture in the beautiful surroundings of Chapel FM Arts Centre — a unique community venue in a spectacularly converted Methodist Chapel — on the Seacroft estate in East Leeds.
Before delivering the Memorial Lecture, I will be joining Len to lay flowers on Maguire’s grave in Beckett Street Cemetery, opposite St James’s Hospital.
I decided to establish an event in memory of Maguire because he was a real Leeds labour and trade union movement hero.
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