ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians
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A fatuous commitment to ‘change’ unites the Establishment
Somehow both the Tories and Labour are keeping a straight face while proclaiming themselves the parties of ‘change’ at the next election, when they offer almost the exact opposite, writes ANDREW MURRAY
The obfuscation of Nazism’s capitalist roots has seen imperialism redeploy fascism again and again — from the killing fields of Guatemala to the war in Ukraine, writes PAWEL WARGAN
From Workers’ Memorial Day to May Day rallies, TOM MORRISON examines the real challenges facing the labour movement as Reform UK’s glossy literature exploits legitimate grievances in traditional left strongholds
Calls have been made for the return to Venezuela of a two-year-old girl currently being held in the US, after being separated from her family by immigration officials, reports SUSAN GREY
In the first of two articles, DANIEL POWELL investigates the causal aspects of the Russo-Ukrainian war as Britain commemorates 80 years since VE Day
WHEN does a crisis stop being a crisis, and when does change start to actually involve changing things?
Those are the questions arising from the round of party conferences just concluded.
The crisis, economically speaking, has been in train since the bankers’ crash of 2008. That epic smash spoke to the instability of global capitalism in a world awash with fictitious capital trying to defy gravity’s pull on the rate of profit.
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Incredibly, US Republican states are systematically dismantling child labour protections, with children transformed back into the cheap, disposable workers of the Dickens era, reports ANDREW MURRAY
ANDREW MURRAY casts an eye over past upheavals and asks whether the left can find a fire escape before the world goes up in flames
