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Why the right is on the rise in Denmark
A splintered right wing might become a mass movement with significant working-class support by harnessing farmers’ discontent and longstanding opposition to the EU, the Danish Communist Party's KAREN SUNDS tells Morten Larsen
Detailing the deluge of delusion and dishonesty pushed by the pro-war camp, IAN SINCLAIR identifies four key tactics corporate journalists use to confuse audiences and suppress opposition to the proxy war in the east
From ‘moral duty’ to ‘military Keynesianism,’ Labour manipulates language to justify slashing welfare but pouring billions into warfare, condemning communities like Glasgow South West to deeper poverty, writes MATT KERR
With politicians dismissing constituents’ fears of global war, the peace movement must look beyond Parliament to prevent catastrophe, writes TOM MORRISON
The mass movement supporting Palestine represents potential political power that the left must now embrace as central to its strategy, writes HUGH LANNING, ahead of this Saturday’s Socialism or Barbarism day school in London
Health Secretary Wes Streeting taking £53k from Tory-linked recruiter and outsourcer Peter Hearn’s OPD Group is a great example of how Labour’s rich donors shape policies targeting the poor – not their wealth, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
MAT COWARD recalls the communist and pacifist aristocrat whose commitment made a difference in the Spanish civil war, the Blitz and WWII Europe
In Britain we may have election fever but Europe is going to the polls too — with the far right predicted to do well across the continent in elections to the European Parliament from June 6-9.
With our sister papers Junge Welt of Germany and Arbejderen of Denmark, we compiled a series of articles looking at the nature of the far-right threat across different European countries, of which this is the fourth. We would like to thank Junge Welt for organising the series and translation.
IF THERE isn’t a broad, cross-party opposition movement to the EU to organise the fight against the social spending cuts from Brussels and gather the people’s anger and frustration, “then it will be the right who will organise the resistance.”
Karen Sunds, chair of the Danish Communist Party’s (KP) EU committee is convinced of this, she warns Danish daily Arbejderen.
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