As Colombia approaches presidential elections next year, the US decision to decertify the country in the war on drugs plays into the hands of its allies on the political right, writes NICK MacWILLIAM
Lammy postures, but Haringey remembers the real Corbyn
The current MP for Tottenham might want to ‘distance’ himself from Corbyn’s socialist politics now, but his constituents haven’t forgotten the day the young councillor took the fight to the National Front in 1977, writes KEITH FLETT
Corbyn played a key role in the “Battle of Wood Green” on April 23 1977, one of the landmark battles which grappled with the rise of the fascist National Front, eventually successfully. On that Saturday afternoon the fascists planned to march down a bustling multi-racial shopping street with the aim of stirring up division and hate.
Corbyn was the organiser of the counter-demonstration.
The move against alleged PKK members that sparked outrage as a community centre in north London was raided last year has now come to trial, writes TONY BURKE, but in the meantime, the peace process abroad has changed the situation almost entirely
A new report points a way to overcome complacent framing of climate issues, ‘by sparking a wider public reckoning with climate realities,’ and reconnecting with working-class people. IAN SINCLAIR reports
We cannot understand today’s world without understanding the rise of China – and we cannot understand China without understanding how it was shaped by the second world war, writes JENNY CLEGG
NICK WRIGHT reports from Italy, where 80 cities saw Gaza strikes as unions paralysed transport and massive crowds clashed with police in Milan — but France is also kicking off, and Westminster, in a very different way, is facing a crisis of legitimacy too
Escalating anti-China rhetoric from the West has a clear purpose – to manufacture consent for the new cold war, and potentially a hot one, argues CARLOS MARTINEZ
JEREMY CORBYN’S Haringey years have led to lasting respect in the area.
I last saw Corbyn in person just before the first lockdown in early March 2020 when he delivered the 20th anniversary Bernie Grant lecture at the Bernie Grant Centre in Tottenham.
His speech that day ranged across issues from anti-racism, the history of slavery and the rise of Black Sections in the Labour Party.
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In 1981, towering figure for the British left Tony Benn came a whisker away from victory, laying the way for a wave of left-wing Labour Party members, MPs and activism — all traces of which are now almost entirely purged by Starmer, writes KEITH FLETT
Who you ask and how you ask matter, as does why you are asking — the history of opinion polls shows they are as much about creating opinions as they are about recording them, writes socialist historian KEITH FLETT
KEITH FLETT revisits debates about the name and structure of proposed working-class parties in the past
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
