A new generation of right-wing politicians have shifted from promoting deregulation to championing anti-migrant politics warns SOLOMON HUGHES
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DAVID ROSENBERG asks what lessons we can draw from the Forde report into allegations of anti-semitism in the Labour Party
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer visits the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin as part of a two-day visit to the German capital, in July 2022
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The US relationship with Israel has evolved into a strategic liability, argues RAMZY BAROUD
A champion motorcyclist, trade union organiser and communist, Clem Beckett went from Britain’s speedway tracks to the battlefields of Spain, where he gave his life resisting Franco’s forces at Jarama. GEOFF BOTTOMS pays tribute to this remarkable anti-fascist
The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
Claiming to ease a fertiliser shortage, the Trump administration has suspended tariffs on Moroccan phosphate imports – deepening US support for the Morocco’s control over Sahrawi territory, writes LUKE ROTELLO
AT a demonstration several weeks ago, I bumped into a veteran Labour activist and former MP who I hadn’t seen for ages. She told me of her neighbour’s deep frustration about the endless delays regarding the publication of the Forde report — her neighbour was Martin Forde.
That chat raised my expectations. I still anticipated that his sharpest criticisms would be blunted before publication, but that proved only partly true.
Forde’s framing depicts a party mired in “toxic factionalism” in the Jeremy Corbyn years, deeming zealous activists of the left and right equally responsible.
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