ROGER D HARRIS and SARA FLOUNDERS challenge propaganda against the blockaded socialist island
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The meaning of London May Day
Our unbroken tradition of marching from Clerkenwell Green on May 1 is a testament to the unity and resolve that is needed to fight the class struggle, writes ROGER SUTTON
The London May Day Organising Committee banner is carried aloft
Marx and Engels incorporated in their writings a critique of the way that capitalism destroys the environment but it is only in the last half century that environmental concerns have become an integral part of the fight for socialism, writes the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
The racist Republican tactic of redistricting to keep Trump and his base in power is turning the clock back to the 1950s, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
With a political crisis engulfing the Labour Party, the case for PR is back on the agenda. TONY BURKE argues trade unions must now engage on changes to our voting system
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
The HS2 debacle exposes what happens when public infrastructure is handed to private contractors – especially when set against China’s state-led high-speed rail success, says CARLOS MARTINEZ
ACROSS Britain, May Day will be celebrated after a year of massive trade union action and community protests.
May Day gives us the opportunity to celebrate those struggles and show support for the battles against the cost-of-living crisis.
Fighting the consequences of the cost of living increases and the economic system that creates it unites all of us — except the rich.
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