Real security comes from having a secure base at home — Keir Starmer’s reckless and renegade decision to get Britain deeper into the proxy war against Russia is as dangerous as it is wasteful, writes SALLY SPIERS
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Modern-day slavery is growing
Forced and unpaid labour are spreading across the globe, from the garment trade to cleaning to construction — we need to stop turning a blind eye, writes ROGER McKENZIE
The plan is to stigmatise and destabilise South Africa in preparation for breaking it up while creating a confused and highly racialised atmosphere around immigration in the US to aid in denying rights to non-white refugees, explains EMILE SCHEPERS
ALAN SIMPSON warns that Starmer’s triangulation strategy will fail just as New Labour’s did, with each rightward move by Labour pushing Tories further right
From the 1917 Balfour Declaration to today’s F-35 sales, Britain’s historical responsibility has now evolved into support for the present-day outright genocide. But our solidarity movement is growing too, writes BEN JAMAL
DIANE ABBOTT MP warns Starmer’s newly declared war on foreigners and scroungers won’t fix housing or services — only class struggle against austerity can do that, and defeat Farage in the process
Ben Chacko talks to ALAN MARDGHUM of the Durham Miners Association about Reform UK‘s dangerous inroads into Durham’s long-standing Labour county council; why he cancelled his party membership; and the political class’s disconnect from working people
Speaking to a CND meeting in Cambridge this week, SIMON BRIGNELL traced how the alliance’s anti-communist machinery broke unions, diverted vital funds from public services, and turned workers into cannon fodder for profit
NEW figures show that slavery is on the increase across the globe. These are words I simply should not be writing in the 21st century.
Walk Free, the International Organisation for Migration and the International Labour Organisation estimate in their recently released Global Slavery Index that nearly 50 million people were now enslaved.
The damning report showing that 49.6m people are trapped in slavery should bring shame to the leaders of the world who have chosen to ignore it or — worse still — condone it by their inaction.
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