Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights general secretary GAWAIN LITTLE discusses the impact of the US-Israeli war on the Iranian people and economy
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Election 2019: reasons to be cheerful and reasons to be careful
The long-term decline in working-class political engagement is a barrier that has to be overcome, says NICK WRIGHT
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is welcomed by Labour Party General Secretary Jennie Formby as he arrives to deliver a speech setting out the party's environment policies at Southampton Football Club in Hampshire, today
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
IN TWO weeks’ time, we go to the polls. It is no exaggeration to say that the outcome will shape the politics not only of the next parliament but of the next decade and beyond.
If Boris Johnson’s refashioned Tory Party gains a majority, the country will be set on a course in which a separation from the political structures of the European Union will mask a continuing convergence with the neoliberal policies which are a condition of EU membership and to which our ruling class is equally wedded.
It seems to have eluded the grasp of some on the left that the deal which Theresa May reached with the EU — and the slightly modified one which the EU reached with Johnson — are as much the property of the EU as our Tory premiers.
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