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Councillor SAM WHEELER says there’s a tangible shift in mood on the left in the city whose mayor has recently become PM — but there’s no room for complacency
Apathy isn’t just political, it’s psychological
The profound damage inflicted by corporate politics on British society’s well-being needs to be thoroughly understood if politics of change are to succeed, writes RABBIL SIKDAR
Communist Party leaders Alex Gordon and Lorraine Douglas deliver vital medicines in trip to besieged socialist island
TUC Cymru is playing a leading role in tackling far-right ideas in the workplace, says LAURA DOEL
A New Delhi press conference in which Sheikh Hasina and her son implied the new order in Bangladesh is a security threat to India has sparked fears she is planning a comeback. SIAM SAROWER JAMIL reports on the fallout
Two months of student unrest have forced out India’s education minister and rattled the BJP regime. Could this be the beginning of the end for Modi, asks Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary MA BABY
MAT COWARD says the heatwave is a testing time for gardeners — but he has some tips
During the morning rush hour in London, bleak and cold and grey, everyone rushes without a second’s thought for anything else other than the job they are enslaved to. There is a competition for space on the trains so no-one misses work they can’t afford to miss. No-one spares a second’s thought for the other person. The Tube during the morning rush hour is a metaphor for dog-eat-dog individualism.
Above the streaming masses of people absorbed in their work, the shadow of skyscrapers loom over people. Locked away in the high rooms are the kind of people insulated from the grey rain, inequality and poverty that envelops millions of ordinary people.
What does politics mean for these people? It’s plausible to imagine very little. Politics is spoken in a different language today, swayed by the lure of corporate ambitions and grounded in fear by that too.
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