SOLOMON HUGHES highlights a 1995 Sunday Times story about the disappearance of ‘defecting Iraqi nuclear scientist.’ Even though the story was debunked, it was widely repeated across the mainstream press, creating the false – and deadly – narrative of Iraqi WMD that eventually led to war
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When it comes to fighting the class war in times when the rich have brought us to the brink of starvation, history shows no tactic can be ruled out, writes KEITH FLETT
Covid has been left to run unchecked, the NHS starved of the resources it needs, energy prices and general inflation rising well above wages and little or nothing done to address the climate emergency.
RUBY ALDEN GIBSON believes Scottish parliament has enough powers to curtail Westminster Labour’s savage attack on welfare
KEVIN DONNELLY reports from Monte Faudo and its annual remembrance of the region’s WWII partisan anti-fascist battles
The Trump government is seizing overseas students from their homes and campuses and even off the streets, with no legal grounds and no due process, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
As global fascism grows, ROGER McKENZIE urges the left to reclaim May Day’s revolutionary roots — not as an act of nostalgia, but as fuel for building a ‘community of resistance’ against exploitation and the rise of fascism
Our unions need to make a firm stand against so-called ‘defence spending’: the boss class say there’s no magic money tree — and there should be no magic mushroom cloud either, argues NATHAN HENNEBRY
KEITH FLETT revisits the 1978 origins of Britain’s May Day bank holiday — from Michael Foot’s triumph to Thatcher’s reluctant acceptance — as Starmer’s government dodges calls to expand our working-class celebrations
BRITAIN is not at war with Russia or anyone else — although there is a war with dreadful impacts going on in Ukraine.
Boris Johnson’s war is performative, playing to a crowd of right-wing Tory MPs and newspapers and which unfortunately Labour also has a supporting role in.
However, there is a war going on in this country and it is the Tories’ class war against ordinary people.
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