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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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
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
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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