Zarah Sultana’s recent brave criticisms of Labour from 2015 to 2020, including Brexit triangulation, IHRA capitulation and insufficient fighting spirit, have ruffled feathers but started an essential discussion, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Panto season is upon us
With the farce of self-imposed ‘fiscal rules’ hanging over next week’s Budget, MATT KERR is not hopeful that the Chancellor will play Mother Goose with the golden eggs
FOR THE FEW NOT THE MANY? Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves addresses up to 300 industry leaders at the International Investment Summit in London
US baseless accusations of drug trafficking and the outrageous putting of a bounty on a president of a sovereign country do not bode well, reports PABLO MERIGUET
Green Party MPs stand alone in Parliament in defending Palestine Action against Labour’s proscription of the group as a terrorist organisation — an outrageous move that the Tories supported and the cowardly Lib Dems abstained on, writes ELLIOT TONG
Mass mobilisations are forcing governments to seriously consider imposing sanctions and severing ties — even in places like Australia and the Netherlands — despite continued arms shipments to Israel’s war machine, writes RAMZY BAROUD
What we are learning today is that fascism can come to power even when the working class of almost every capitalist nation is very far from achieving revolution, argues DAVID LETHBRIDGE
TONY BURKE explains how an internationally significant breakthrough for workers’ organisation and recognition against two notoriously anti-union global mega corporations has been finally achieved in Canada
THE nights are fair drawin’ in, as they say. The gales have arrived, knocking the withered leaves from the trees, only to be washed down a gully in the torrents of rain… promptly blocking the drain.
It’s the annual reminder, should any be now necessary at all, that services aren’t what they used to be. The only broom to sweep a gutter these days will be found in your cupboard, not the back of a council wagon.
Somewhere in a far-off place, a resident will emerge from her home next week onto the most immaculate street in the land. Regularly swept for litter, listening devices and explosives, only journalists and the endless procession of new MPs posing for selfies on the steps of No 10 litter Downing Street.
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