ROGER D HARRIS and SARA FLOUNDERS challenge propaganda against the blockaded socialist island
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Solidarity is our watchword this May Day
We stand together with workers in their struggles for peace and socialism, says ROGER SUTTON
A London May Day march in 2016
Marx and Engels incorporated in their writings a critique of the way that capitalism destroys the environment but it is only in the last half century that environmental concerns have become an integral part of the fight for socialism, writes the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
The racist Republican tactic of redistricting to keep Trump and his base in power is turning the clock back to the 1950s, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
With a political crisis engulfing the Labour Party, the case for PR is back on the agenda. TONY BURKE argues trade unions must now engage on changes to our voting system
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
The HS2 debacle exposes what happens when public infrastructure is handed to private contractors – especially when set against China’s state-led high-speed rail success, says CARLOS MARTINEZ
THIS May Day takes place in a very different situation from last year.
We had prepared for our annual march and rally by aiming at raising two important issues for workers — fighting the anti-union laws and fighting against climate change through just transition.
Once the health emergency started, we immediately resolved that May Day would continue but in a different form — an online rally.
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