Strike veterans and trade unionists found many parallels between Rupert Murdoch’s attack on the print unions and today’s democratic struggles, reports BEN CHACKO

ALFIO BERNABEI says an Italian minister meeting the British far-right agitator in his ministerial office is an ominous sign of the times

ROBERT GRIFFITHS delivered the main political report to the Communist Party’s executive committee meeting last weekend. Here is the second of two articles based on his address

A past confrontation permanently shaped the methods the state will use to protect employers against any claims by their employees, writes MATT WRACK, but unions are readying to face the challenge

Donald Trump’s bid to seize Greenland has exposed the deep hypocrisy at the heart of Nato, the EU and US foreign policy, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP

A step-by-step account of how Rupert Murdoch’s clandestine move to Wapping triggered one of the longest and most brutal industrial disputes in modern Britain, marked by secret deals, mass sackings, unprecedented policing and lasting consequences for trade unionism and the press

MEIC BIRTWISTLE offers an appreciation of the renaissance man GARETH MILES

SHARON GRAHAM reflects on the lessons of Murdoch’s confrontation with print workers – and argues that, in an age of AI, automation and net zero, only early organisation, collective power and planning can stop history repeating itself

ROBERT GRIFFITHS delivered the main political report to the Communist Party's executive committee meeting last weekend. Here is the first of two articles based on his address

VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)

Trump’s ‘Peace Council’ is not a peace project, but a war and colonial council that renews Western colonialism, writes SEVIM DAGDELEN

JOHN LANG recalls how Murdoch used scabbing electricians and even devised a fake newspaper to force a confrontation with printers – then sacked them all