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A time for working-class mobilisation
MEIRIAN JUMP reports from the weekend’s international conference to mark the 90th anniversary of the founding of Marx Memorial Library and Workers School
Western media dismisses the National People’s Congress while ignoring its extensive consultation processes, massive public participation mechanisms, and a tiered structure involving millions of deputies, explains JENNY CLEGG
Despite caring for vulnerable children and often covering classes, support staff remain undervalued, with some earning less than supermarket workers — but GMB’s campaigning offers new hope, argues DONNA SPICER
NICK WRIGHT examines how Farage’s party has attracted five distinct voter tribes with incompatible views on economics, immigration and state intervention — presenting both a challenge and opportunity for left organising
Man-made canals like Panama and Suez face unprecedented challenges from extreme weather patterns and geopolitical tensions that reveal the fragility of our global trade networks, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
As climate change makes vast mineral deposits accessible, the island’s 56,000 residents face unprecedented pressure from Trump’s territorial ambitions while struggling to maintain their traditional way of life, writes JOHN GREEN
Student Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest and threatened deportation are terrifying — but the moribund Democrats are still failing to mount any meaningful resistance against the slide toward autocracy, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
SPEAKING at Saturday’s international meeting to mark the 90th anniversary of Marx Memorial Library and Workers School, the general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Sitaram Yechury called for a renewed international movement of solidarity against the increasingly coercive character of neoliberal exploitation worldwide.
When the library had been founded in 1933 workers faced fascism. “Today we see a rapid political rightward shift globally. It is the way finance capital is able to use ‘liberal democracy’ itself to ensure super-exploitation and super-profit.
“Elected parliaments are themselves legally stripping working people of secured rights and collaborating in a disastrous degradation of the environment. Racism, bigotry, communalism and chauvinism are, as in India and elsewhere, the tools of control.
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