Just as German Social Democrats joined the Nazis in singing Deutschland Uber Alles, ANDREW MURRAY observes how Starmer tries to out-Farage Farage with anti-migrant policies — but evidence shows Reform voters come from Tories, not Labour, making this ploy morally bankrupt and politically pointless
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Corbynism was right: war is a domestic issue
Those who feel that progressive policies on things like the welfare state mean we can ignore the overseas crimes of Western foreign policy have always been dangerously wrong, explains ANDREW MURRAY
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn joins a demonstration in Parliament Square, London, by the Stop the War campaign group to demand that politicians recognise that the war in Afghanistan was a catastrophe that must not be repeated. Picture date: Wednesday August 18, 2021
KEITH FLETT traces how the ‘world’s most successful political party’ has imploded since Thatcher’s fall, from nine leaders in 30 years to losing all 16 English councils, with Reform UK symbolically capturing Peel’s birthplace, Tamworth — but the beast is not dead yet
With turnout plummeting and faith in Parliament collapsing, BERT SCHOUWENBURG explains how radical local government reform — including devolved taxation and removal of party politics from town halls — could restore power to communities currently ignored by profit-obsessed MPs
As food and fuel run out, Gaza’s doctors appeal to the world to end the ‘genocide of children,’ reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
While Trump threatens to send Haitian gang leaders to El Salvador's terror prison, DANNY SHAW reveals how these paramilitary groups are merely symptoms of US-backed neocolonial rule — the real terrorists are the CIA and international actors arming desperate youth to traumatise an unarmed population
Having endured 14 years of Tory austerity followed by Starmerite cuts, young voters are desperate for change — but Anas Sarwar’s refusal to differentiate from Westminster means Scottish Labour risks electoral catastrophe, writes LAUREN HARPER
Mark Harvey pays tribute to a veteran of the days when the London building trade was a hotbed of working-class struggle, a legendary trade unionist, communist and poet
THOSE who recall Andrew Fisher’s histrionic resignation as Labour Party policy director in autumn 2019, delivered in such a way as to be inevitably leaked and thereby do significant damage to the then-struggling Corbyn leadership of the party, should not have been surprised at his latest sally.
Fisher has demanded that the Stop the War Coalition disband itself, and abused the “warped minds of the withered remnants” of its leadership, because it does not speak in his name in relation to the Ukraine war, in which he supports Nato policy.
This particular warped, withered remnant was not shocked — “Cowards will flinch, traitors will sneer” after all. Check the story of the frog and the scorpion for details. Such response as Fisher’s article requires can be found at Stopwar.org.uk for those interested.
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Just as German Social Democrats joined the Nazis in singing Deutschland Uber Alles, ANDREW MURRAY observes how Starmer tries to out-Farage Farage with anti-migrant policies — but evidence shows Reform voters come from Tories, not Labour, making this ploy morally bankrupt and politically pointless
