Real security comes from having a secure base at home — Keir Starmer’s reckless and renegade decision to get Britain deeper into the proxy war against Russia is as dangerous as it is wasteful, writes SALLY SPIERS
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Claudia Webbe: No sign of giving up yet
HARSEV BAINS of the Indian Workers' Association puts into context the recent conviction of Leicester East MP Claudia Webbe, who is intending to appeal the verdict
Leicester East MP Claudia Webbe
The plan is to stigmatise and destabilise South Africa in preparation for breaking it up while creating a confused and highly racialised atmosphere around immigration in the US to aid in denying rights to non-white refugees, explains EMILE SCHEPERS
ALAN SIMPSON warns that Starmer’s triangulation strategy will fail just as New Labour’s did, with each rightward move by Labour pushing Tories further right
From the 1917 Balfour Declaration to today’s F-35 sales, Britain’s historical responsibility has now evolved into support for the present-day outright genocide. But our solidarity movement is growing too, writes BEN JAMAL
DIANE ABBOTT MP warns Starmer’s newly declared war on foreigners and scroungers won’t fix housing or services — only class struggle against austerity can do that, and defeat Farage in the process
Ben Chacko talks to ALAN MARDGHUM of the Durham Miners Association about Reform UK‘s dangerous inroads into Durham’s long-standing Labour county council; why he cancelled his party membership; and the political class’s disconnect from working people
Speaking to a CND meeting in Cambridge this week, SIMON BRIGNELL traced how the alliance’s anti-communist machinery broke unions, diverted vital funds from public services, and turned workers into cannon fodder for profit
LEICESTER has often been described as one of the “most ethnically diverse” places in Britain.
The 2011 British census recorded that two-thirds of its population was non-white and nearly half, or 48.5 per cent of the people here, described themselves as Asian.
But MPs from Leicester East have been in the news for all kinds of unflattering reasons for the past couple of years.
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As a delegate to the party’s 24th congress, HARSEV BAINS connects historical threads from Harry Pollitt’s 1954 visit to today’s challenges of building left unity against corporate-backed Hindu nationalism
In the midst of a cost-of-living crisis, ramping up in visa and immigration fees will leave students and highly skilled migrants counting the cost, writes HARSEV BAINS of the Indian Workers Association
HARSEV BAINS of the Indian Workers’ Association welcomes the decision by Labour to include key demands from the South Asian diaspora in Britain in their manifesto
The breaking up of the state of Jammu and Kashmir is intended to break the will of the people, says HARSEV BAINS
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