Ten days after right-wing destabilisation attempts, Mexico’s leadership has emerged strengthened, securing historic labour and wage agreements, while opposition-backed protests have crumbled under scrutiny, says DAVID RABY
What next for the Labour left in Cymru?
DYLAN LEWIS-ROWLANDS from Welsh Labour Grassroots sets out the socialist group’s manifesto for the Labour left and the party beyond the leadership election to replace First Minister Mark Drakeford
Workers from Tata's Port Talbot steelworks gather at College Green, in Westminster, London, following the announcement that Tata is planning to close blast furnaces at the country's biggest steel plant in South Wales, January 23, 2024
Fuelled by economic abandonment and a collapsing faith in politics, Farage’s party is transforming grievance into momentum north of the border, warns COLL McCAIL
A searing scrutiny hearing has uncovered thousands of undelivered appointments, vanishing data and a system in chaos – galvanising councillors, patients and activists to demand urgent reform and an NHS dentist for all, writes SIMON BRIGNELL
A vast US war fleet deployed in the south Caribbean — ostensibly to fight drug-trafficking but widely seen as a push for violent regime change — has sparked international condemnation and bipartisan resistance in the US itself. FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ reports
ANSELM ELDERGILL recalls the misjudgments, mishaps and moments of farce that shaped his years in legal practice
MAT COWARD tells how 18th-century scholar and revolutionary democrat Joseph Ritson turned a medieval outlaw into England’s people’s hero — soon to be gracing panto halls around the nation
THIS policy document is based on an extensive list of progressive policies we sent to the two candidates.
We were impressed that they both responded, but we were less impressed with the detail of their responses.
Politicians usually speak in vague terms and even when they do commit, as in the notorious 10 pledges of Sir Keir Starmer, whether we trust them or not to follow through is another matter.
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