As Palestine Action prisoners go weeks without food, alleging dangerous neglect and detention without trial, campaigners warn that a near-total media blackout is hiding a crisis that could turn fatal – and fuel a growing wave of public anger. ELIZABETH SHORT reports
Racism as a capitalist strategy to divide workers
Anti-racism is indivisible from class struggle: sometimes we need to find ways to bring black and white workers together but also it can mean black self-organisation, writes ROGER McKENZIE
STRENGTH IN UNITY: White and African-American workers together with placards: ‘The Dress Shipping Clerks' Won't Cross the Picket Line. We Stand United with the Dressmakers Union!,’ 1958
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As the new party emerges from its founding conference with a bold socialist identity, its future hinges on whether it can provide the organisational clarity needed to turn class sentiment into class power, argues NICK WRIGHT
RICHARD BURGON MP argues the left must build on recent victories and urgently unite around a bold cost-of-living programme
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
Barred from returning home, a group of Greek Brigaders came to Britain and founded the League for Democracy in Greece – a movement that carried the flame of anti-fascist resistance from the 1930s through the cold war and beyond. ALI BASSAM ZAHID tells the story
Your Party can become an antidote to Reform UK – but only by rooting itself in communities up and down the country, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
RACISM must be understood as an instrument of exploitation in the workplace and beyond.
Far from being an abstract phenomenon of ideas and influences, racism is a dynamic which is deeply rooted in the structures of exploitation, power and privilege.
Consequently, the radical tradition of resistance to racism by black workers through the strategy of self-organisation is also far from being random or accidental.
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