Once again Tower Hamlets is being targeted by anti-Islam campaigners, this time a revamped and radicalised version of Ukip — the far-right event is now banned by the police, but we’ll be assembling this Saturday to make sure they stay away, says JAYDEE SEAFORTH
The US Republican Party slips deeper into the right-wing void
In an ominous move, the Republicans have unanimously elected the cartoonishly extreme ‘Maga Mike’ Johnson as their next speaker, writes MARK GRUENBERG
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson talks with reporters ahead of the debate and vote on supplemental aid to Israel, at the US Capitol in Washington, November 2, 2023
URI WELTMANN reports on a day in the life of peace activists from Israel, travelling to help Palestinians in the West Bank harvest their olives under threat from settlers and soldiers
The independent TD’s campaign has put important issues like Irish reunification and military neutrality at the heart of the political conversation, argues SEAN MacBRADAIGH
Italian unions are mobilising against rearmament and for wages and investment – but left blunders still leave the ‘post-fascist’ Italian PM looking likely to keep her job, says NICK WRIGHT
New research into mutations in sperm helps us better understand why they occur, while debunking a few myths in the process, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises
ON their fourth try, the House’s ruling Republicans finally elected a new speaker: Louisiana representative Mike Johnson — a man who not only denied Joe Biden’s election as president in the infamous events of January 6 2021, but before that rounded up other Republicans to support a Texas scheme to toss the 2020 election out.
With his elevation to the top job in Congress, no-one can argue that the Trumpite “Maga” (make America great again) faction of the Republican Party is just a fringe element. Maga is now in charge; this is Trump’s party, through and through.
Republicans have just unanimously elected a Speaker who is the architect of House Republican efforts to overturn the 2020 election, voted against the Violence Against Women Act, voted against the Women’s Health Protection Act, voted against legislation to codify marriage equality, authored federal legislation attempting to nationalise Florida’s infamous “don’t say gay” law, and co-sponsored legislation to turn health professionals who provide gender-affirming care into felons.
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