In a wide-ranging interview, JEREMY CORBYN talks to Ben Chacko about the difficulties the new Prime Minister faces and why he sees no future in Labour
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Green-washing a recovery of yesterday’s economics is a death-wish, not a plan. It would race the planet towards dystopian climate collapse, writes ALAN SIMPSON
A sharp rise in public-sector investment is required to kick-start the economy, argues MICHAEL BURKE
Burnham’s billions for defence while councils and local services struggle will not deliver the change that Britain’s working-class communities need, says MICAELA TRACEY-RAMOS
Millions of elms were wiped out by Dutch elm disease in the 20th century, transforming the landscape forever – yet pockets of hope are keeping this beloved tree alive. MARK SEDDON explains
CARLOS MARTINEZ looks at the facts behind US persecution of Fergie Chambers
While Italy’s communist tradition remains fragmented and politically marginal, France’s party is attempting to re-establish itself as an independent force rooted in working-class organisation, says NICK WRIGHT
ACROSS the world, sportsmen and women have been “taking the knee” in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. What troubles me is the prospect of this becoming a trivialised gesture, wrapped up in processes that change nothing. Stripped of specific, disruptive, demands it could slip into the trough of gesture politics. Broader “Change Now!” demands are needed to give it meaning.
“Stop killing black people” is one essential starting point for police forces, both across the US and worldwide. But what else? What about those being killed in the coronavirus outbreak in the Smithfield meat processing plant in South Dakota?
Smithfield is the US’s biggest cluster outbreak of coronavirus. It accounts for 55 per cent of South Dakota’s reported cases. Most of its 3,700 workers are non-white, non-English speaking citizens.
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