General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
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From the IMF to Brics: the emerging multipolar order and the imperialist backlash
New alliances like Brics are forging a multilateral world as the global South nations assert their true independence after almost a century of nominal sovereignty under the reality of crushing economic servitude, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu (centre) and other participants pose for a photo during their meeting on the sidelines of the meeting of Brics and Brics Plus High-Level Security Officials in St Petersburg, Russia, September 10, 2024
After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Bizarrely, Trump’s latest attacks now include the National Zoo, but his real and racist agenda is to strip everything black from the country’s cultural institutions, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The transformation of a stable secular state into a fractured ruin largely ruled by Western-backed fundamentalists exposes the hollow nature of ‘multipolarity’ and the absence of principled anti-imperialism today, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Facing economic turmoil, Jim Callaghan’s government rejected Tony Benn’s alternative economic strategy in favour of cuts that paved the way for Thatcherism — and the cuts-loving Labour of the present era, writes KEITH FLETT
The economic value of disability benefits far outweighs their cost, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
As tensions rise in the Middle East, the role of Iran in the region’s political balance becomes ever more significant. STEVE BISHOP assesses the current situation
MOST people on the planet do not live within the borders of the former colonial powers — but they have been dominated by them for most of the last 500 years.
But the good news is we are now at a major geopolitical tipping point, and the global majority is rising up and constructing a new world.
There are no demands for change as if permission were required; the vast majority of the global population is simply going about the business of constructing a new way of doing things that breaks away from the rule of the minority.
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