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
Unions need to be doing more to eradicate racism
As far as many black workers are concerned, not enough is being done within the labour movement to address racial discrimination, says ROGER McKENZIE
NO TO HATE: People take part in a Take The Knee event outside the Guildhall, Southampton, as part of a TUC and Stand Up To Racism week
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
RMT leader Eddie Dempsey's stark warning shook up a fringe meeting at the Scottish TUC
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KYRIL WHITTAKER looks at what guides Vietnam 50 years after reunification
IN COMMON with much of the last year, October is a prime month for tokenistic gestures.
It is a month when some white people who for the rest of the time treat black people with contempt turn up for their annual dose of black history and food.
Some are even invited to make a speech or two to underline their “against racism” credentials and to say how much they believe that black lives matter.
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