Robinson successfully defended his school from closure, fought for the unification of the teaching unions, mentored future trade union leaders and transformed teaching at the Marx Memorial Library, writes JOHN FOSTER
Macron is solely responsible for the deadlock in French politics
BILL GREENSHIELDS reviews the president's contortions as he tries to avoid appointing a government of the election-winning New Popular Front
French President Emmanuel Macron gestures at the Elysee Palace as French left-wing coalition accuses Emmanuel Macron of denying democracy after he has rejected the New Popular Front's candidate to form a new government following last month's inconclusive election, August 27, 2024 in Paris
A judge in a German court ruled that the ban activity imposed on renowned Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah was unlawful, reports LEON WYSTRYCHOWSKI
At the very moment Britain faces poverty, housing and climate crises requiring radical solutions, the liberal press promotes ideologically narrow books while marginalising authors who offer the most accurate understanding of change, writes IAN SINCLAIR
From Gaza protest bans to proscribing Palestine Action, political elites are showing a crisis of confidence as they abandon Roy Jenkins’s apologetic approach for Suella Braverman’s aggressive ‘hate march’ rhetoric, writes PAUL DONOVAN
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the legal case behind this weekend’s Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival and the lessons for today
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
The summer of 1950 saw Labour abandon further nationalisation while escalating Korean War spending from £2.3m to £4.7m, as the government meekly accepted capitalism’s licence and became Washington’s yes-man, writes JOHN ELLISON
FRANCE’S ongoing electoral crisis has been directly and deliberately created by the head of state President Emmanuel Macron, in the name of “institutional stability” — playing into the hands of the fascist-led National Rally.
Macron says that the winners of the election, the New Popular Front (NPF) — the coalition of the Communist Party, France Unbowed, the Socialist Party and the Ecologists — cannot possibly be allowed to form a government as they would “immediately” be brought down, since they do not have an overall majority of seats in the National Assembly.
Of course Macron fails to remember that he happily appointed Gabriel Attal to head up a minority government of his own Ensemble party in 2022 — the second “Macronist” minority government during his presidency — and, with this memory lapse, feels able unilaterally to reject Lucie Castets, the prime ministerial candidate nominated by the winners of the most seats in the Assembly.
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