Nuclear safety experts warn that sweeping cuts to oversight rules could undermine environmental safeguards as the White House races to bring new reactors online by 2026, says CHAUNCEY K ROBINSON
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In the wake of the Granma
PETER FROST tells a little known story from the very start of the Cuban Revolution
The Granma, that brought Fidel and his comrades to Cuba to launch their revolution
Engels’ call for a structured, systematic, critique of capitalism and for a strategy for securing something better remains as relevant today as it did a century and a half ago, declares the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
As the Stop the War Coalition holds its annual conference, ANDREW MURRAY warns that Britain’s alignment with US foreign policy is fuelling global instability and diverting billions from welfare, wages and public services
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the tension between treating children as vulnerable dependants and recognising them as citizens with rights
The tightening of protest rights reflects a broader shift toward repression in Britain’s strained liberal democracy. Socialists and trade unionists must be ready to resist further attacks on our freedoms, warns JOHN McINALLY
Until ministers stop deferring to the market and start drawing hard lines, the public will remain at the mercy of private power, says MATT KERR
IT IS 1943. Working night shifts in the shipbuilding firms that make up the Brooklyn Navy Yard on New York’s East River is a young playwright called Arthur Miller. He writes plays during the day and works nights to earn the money to live.
He is also learning the communist politics that will stay with him all his life. He learns it at meetings of the Communist Party cells among shipbuilders and longshoremen on the waterfront.
The Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1943 was a chaotic, frantically busy world of wharfs and slipways crammed with 70,000 men and women working 24 hours a day, seven days a week, building and repairing ships.
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