Despite the adoring support from Elon Musk and Donald Trump, Javier Milei’s radical-right free-market nightmare is unravelling, and the people are beginning to score major victories against the government in the streets and in elections, reports BEN HAYES

THE forgotten story of trade union activist Vale Rawlings is being retold in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, to mark the 110th anniversary of a court case that was the talk of Britain in the weeks leading up to World War I.
Writer Elaine Pritchard unearthed Rawlings’ story, while doing local history research, and took it to William Walker, secretary of East Staffordshire Trades Union Council.
Willliam said: “My trade union comrades and I had not heard of Vale before, but it quickly became clear that this was a powerful story that deserved to be in the spotlight again.”

TONY FOX invites readers to come and hear the story of the remarkable Liverpudlian International Brigader Alexander Foote

MOLLIE BROWN reports on this year’s festival in honour of the ‘seven men of Jarrow’ deported to Australia for union activity 193 years ago

BILL GREENSHIELDS invites all and sundry to this years’ Derby Silk Mill Lockout March, Rally and People’s Festival on June 7

With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE