Tony Benn’s constituents chose him by an overwhelming majority — but because he had inherited a peerage, parliamentary rules declared their choice invalid, writes MAT COWARD
The tale of a US spy plane over the South China Sea
While the US claimed China intercepted its reconnaissance aircraft ‘unprofessionally,’ it failed to mention the spy plane’s proximity to mainland China and People’s Liberation Army training exercises, reports PEOPLE’S DISPATCH
CLOSE CALL: The Chinese J-16 seen in a video shot from the US RC-135 spy plane
The real welfare dependency is at the top of our society, says ALAN SIMPSON
Two months of student unrest have forced out India’s education minister and rattled the BJP regime. Could this be the beginning of the end for Modi, asks Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary MA BABY
Councillor SAM WHEELER says there’s a tangible shift in mood on the left in the city whose mayor has recently become PM — but there’s no room for complacency
Communist Party leaders Alex Gordon and Lorraine Douglas deliver vital medicines in trip to besieged socialist island
TUC Cymru is playing a leading role in tackling far-right ideas in the workplace, says LAURA DOEL
ON Wednesday May 31, China strongly rejected the US version of an incident involving planes from the two countries over the South China sea.
The previous day, the US Indo-Pacific Command had released a video and announced that a Chinese military jet had made an “unnecessarily aggressive manoeuvre” near a US military aircraft.
The incident, which supposedly took place on May 26, comes at a time of heightened tensions between the two nations.
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