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What chance of revival after the elections?
Labour's surge of membership and support under Corbyn bucked the trend of the decline of Europe's other left parties. Is it now back on course to fade into the night — or will a new wave of activism save it? Asks NICK WRIGHT
Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer and Deputy Leader Angela Rayner
Capitalism has extracted itself from crisis before, argues PRABHAT PATNAIK – but through methods no longer available. So it is turning to authoritarianism, militarism and neocolonialism
The five young men killed in the A66 crash were responsible for a devastating tragedy — but the crash should force us to ask difficult questions about wider society, argues RENATA MEDEIROS MIRRA
Britain funds the policing of black culture 16 times better than the culture itself. The Diamond Jubilee is the moment to end that, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite Andy Burnham’s declaration defending the continued partition of the island, all major international and internal trends are converging to make Irish reunification inevitable
Humans are part of the ‘animal kingdom’ – and of nature in general – but also distinct from it and labour (work) is part of what makes us unique, declared Engels. His insights 150 years ago into how our species came to be and how we differ from the rest of nature, are as important today as they were then, says the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
LABOUR under Sir Keir Starmer has stalled. Where there was once a policy ferment that proved its capacity to mobilise millions, there is now a studied silence. Numbers are down — around 100,000 people have dropped their connection with the party.
Elections are exercises in human endeavour and party members know from practical experience over the last few weeks that — with local exceptions — there is nothing like the enthusiasm which transformed the 2017 general election campaign or even the sense of duty and dogged determination that drove the 2019 contest.
A mixed election result has confirmed the failure of Labour’s national leadership.
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