Washington’s inability to subjugate Iran is an example of how it is trying to preserve a regional order that no longer exists, argues RAMZY BAROUD
How can we keep up this anti-fascist momentum?
Mass protests may have put fascists on the back foot for now, but Nigel Farage and Reform UK are fanning the flames of a dangerous new racist offensive, warns WEYMAN BENNETT, announcing Stand Up to Racism’s new campaign
TROUBLE AHEAD: (Left to right) Tommy Robinson, Donald Trump and Nigel Farage present a new, serious challenge from the right
US financial instability is exposing the limits of a dollar-dominated global economy — and giving the Global South a historic chance to build an alternative, says MURAD QURESHI
DOUG NICHOLLS says the parasitic finance markets must be challenged or another British government could be toppled
The late country singer’s Imagination Library has put hundreds of millions of books into children’s hands. We should build on that legacy by defending the libraries at the heart of our communities, says BRENDA AITCHISON
Deprivation is a fundamental factor in criminal behaviour that must be addressed but, KENNY MacASKILL argues, there needs to a major rethink in sentencing to tackle overcrowding
MML director MEIRIAN JUMP outlines the recently refreshed library’s busy autumn schedule that ranges from book sales, archival exploration, community work with online education and the ever popular site tours
TONY BURKE surveys the shifting political landscape and the challenges Labour needs to address if it is to prevail in the 2028 federal elections
THE last few weeks have changed British politics. We face a new, urgent far-right threat. But we have also seen how anti-racists can turn the tide.
The protests that took place on Wednesday August 7 and Saturday August 10 show what a mass movement against racism looks like.
In response to far-right riots, pogroms against migrants in hotels and attacks on mosques, the anti-racist movement roared back. Because people organised, mobilised and took to the streets we pushed the far right back — and shaped a crucial juncture in British politics.
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May elections will soon be upon us and SABBY DHALU calls for a maximum mobilisation, across Britain, to defeat Reform UK and the right at the ballot box
As extremist hate spreads and disillusion deepens, the labour movement must offer more than resistance — it must offer a future, writes MATT WRACK, general secretary of NASUWT – The Teachers’ Union