Councillor SAM WHEELER says there’s a tangible shift in mood on the left in the city whose mayor has recently become PM — but there’s no room for complacency
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PETER FROST’S guide to statues and what they stand – or fall - by
Robert Milligan’s statue at West India Docks in London is taken away
Communist Party leaders Alex Gordon and Lorraine Douglas deliver vital medicines in trip to besieged socialist island
TUC Cymru is playing a leading role in tackling far-right ideas in the workplace, says LAURA DOEL
A New Delhi press conference in which Sheikh Hasina and her son implied the new order in Bangladesh is a security threat to India has sparked fears she is planning a comeback. SIAM SAROWER JAMIL reports on the fallout
Two months of student unrest have forced out India’s education minister and rattled the BJP regime. Could this be the beginning of the end for Modi, asks Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary MA BABY
MAT COWARD says the heatwave is a testing time for gardeners — but he has some tips
LABOUR prime minister Harold Wilson once famously said that a week is a long time in politics.
He was right about this one. We have seen not just attitudes but whole agendas change as the Black Lives Matter movement gathers support.
Demonstrations all across Britain and the globe are changing the way many — but not yet all — institutions are reassessing long-term attitudes to racism.
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