Gaza’s collective sumud has proven more powerful than one of the world’s best-equipped militaries, but the change in international attitudes isn’t happening fast enough to save a starving population from Western-backed genocide, argues RAMZY BAROUD
If the working class is back, a united left fightback is all the more essential
Enough is Enough has given the left a tremendous shot in the arm, says ANDREW MURRAY – but unity across campaigns and unions is the only way to deliver success
BEYOND SOLIDARITY: Jeremy Corbyn (2nd left), Zarah Sultana, MP for Coventry South and Mick Lynch, general secretary of theRMT on the picket line outside London Euston train station last Thursday
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JOHN PERRY, BECCA RENK and ROGER D HARRIS offer a corrective to the idea that Latin America still lags far behind the West on women’s rights by looking at the region’s significant feminist gains now stretching back decades
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The summer saw the co-founders of modern communism travelling from Ramsgate to Neuenahr to Scotland in search of good weather, good health and good newspapers in the reading rooms, writes KEITH FLETT
STEPHEN ARNELL casts a critical eye over the sudden rash of challenges to the two-party system on both sides of the Atlantic, noting that today’s performative populist politics sadly lacks Roosevelt’s progressive ‘Bull Moose’ vision of the early 20th century
“THE working class is back.” So said RMT general secretary Mick Lynch at the recent rally launching the Enough is Enough campaign.
It is the most important declaration in British politics this year, maybe this century. In it lies the seeds of the only possible solution to the imposing range of crises besetting the country and the world.
Pedants might argue that the working class was there all the time. As a sociological category, true; as an active social force capable of shaping the destiny of society — Marx’s understanding of the matter — not so much.
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