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
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Labour’s strategic defence review: nothing to do with defence or security
RMT president ALEX GORDON exposes the government's bellicose foreign policy
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
Two months into Donald Trump’s second run as president, what can we glean about his policies towards Latin America so far, asks TIM YOUNG, ahead of this Saturday’s Socialism or Barbarism day school in London
Xenophobic hysteria over the statistically insignificant number of small-boat crossings deliberately conceals how capitalism manipulates population flows for profit — if we can explain that, we’ll beat the right, argues NICK WRIGHT
JOGINDER BAINS argues that the infamously cruel and calculated mass murder of Indians blocked into a public square and fired upon by the British Indian Army still faces a reckoning
The annual Fenner Brockway Lecture, hosted by Liberation, was delivered this year by Peter Mertens, Chair of the Workers’ Party of Belgium. STEVE BISHOP reflects on some of the highlights of Mertens’ address
BEFORE I was a member of a trade union, I was a member of Youth CND. My teenage years were heavily influenced by the peace and anti-nuclear movements in Britain and internationally.
We joined Ban the Bomb demos in London. We visited peace camps at Alconbury, Lakenheath and Greenham Common. We headed to Brockwell Park to hear the Style Council, The Damned and Madness at the CND Youth Festival for Peace in 1983.
The popular culture of resistance to cold war warriors gave my generation its music, politics and attitude. Growing up in 1970s and 1980s under the shadow of a tactical nuclear arms race and the doctrine of mutually assured destruction affected my generation in a way comparable to the effect of social media today on young people in coverage of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. It gave us a sense of urgency that called on us to become activists.
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ALEX GORDON details how Stop the War Coalition’s efforts have shaped the TUC’s stance, with motions calling for a comprehensive arms embargo on Israel and workplace action for a ceasefire
ANGELO ALVES is a member of the political committee of the Portuguese Communist Party. He spoke to Alex Gordon on the 50th anniversary of Portugal’s Carnation Revolution of April 25 1974 about the legacy and the struggle of young workers and trade unionists today against Portugal’s latest right-wing government
The Star publishes the Karl Marx Graveside Oration delivered by ALEX GORDON at Highgate Cemetery yesterday
RMT president ALEX GORDON on Saturday’s TUC Special Congress
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