The US reprisal of global nuclear proliferation, threatening a new arms race, could push the world to the brink of annihilation, warns SOPHIE BOLT of CND
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Trump and the neoreactionaries: the geopolitics of implosion
As the ‘NRx movement’ plots to replace democracy with corporate-feudal dictatorship, Britain must pursue a radical alternative of local food security and genuine wealth redistribution to withstand the coming upheaval, writes ALAN SIMPSON
US President Donald Trump stands in the presidential box as he tours the John F Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts in Washington, March 17, 2025
October 2025 was another Black History Month. Has Britain learned anything – or are we going backwards, asks CLAUDIA WEBBE
Real action is needed to make sure tragedies like that at Huntingdon never happen again. TSSA leader MARYAM ESLAMDOUST suggests some practical, achievable steps to be taken
VINCE MILLS sizes up the problems facing Your Party north of the border as it grapples with a range of policies, including its approach to Scottish independence
MARK SERWOTKA issues a rallying call to those committed to building a new radical socialist party of the working class to commit to real democracy, not imaginary or performative gestures
Scholar of Latin America, journalist and anti-imperialist, who leaves a powerful intellectual and political legacy
THESE aren’t the changes Bob Dylan was calling for. His was a “get out of the way” message from a generation eager for more optimistic, transformative and inclusive change. There’s no such optimism to be found in today’s upheavals. Meanness and madness occupy the centre stage of global politics.
The bully-boy tactics of Donald Trump, JD Vance and Elon Musk are creating a trail of destruction and insecurity that is rapidly trashing “the old world order.” Many would argue it needed trashing, but not to make way for something so much worse. This, though, is the world we are faced with and these are the politics that urgently need a-changin’.
In doing so, if there is one core message to be understood, particularly by Britain’s Labour government, it is this: the answer to a playground bully is never to suck up to them, never to go looking for smaller kids to pick on.
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