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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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
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
“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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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
