The Trump government is seizing overseas students from their homes and campuses and even off the streets, with no legal grounds and no due process, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
A campaign of the many, for the many
Labour’s people-powered campaign is off to a flying start, writes MATT WILLGRESS
As global fascism grows, ROGER McKENZIE urges the left to reclaim May Day’s revolutionary roots — not as an act of nostalgia, but as fuel for building a ‘community of resistance’ against exploitation and the rise of fascism
Our unions need to make a firm stand against so-called ‘defence spending’: the boss class say there’s no magic money tree — and there should be no magic mushroom cloud either, argues NATHAN HENNEBRY
KEITH FLETT revisits the 1978 origins of Britain’s May Day bank holiday — from Michael Foot’s triumph to Thatcher’s reluctant acceptance — as Starmer’s government dodges calls to expand our working-class celebrations
RMT leader Eddie Dempsey's stark warning shook up a fringe meeting at the Scottish TUC
Incredibly, US Republican states are systematically dismantling child labour protections, with children transformed back into the cheap, disposable workers of the Dickens era, reports ANDREW MURRAY
KYRIL WHITTAKER looks at what guides Vietnam 50 years after reunification
ONE OF the most positive news stories since my last column was that in its first 10 days since the general election was called, Labour’s campaign received small donations totalling more than £1 million. The average donation was £26.
And despite claims in much of the Tory-supporting media that Labour wouldn’t be able to get people active and supporting the campaign like in 2017, in fact in the first two days of the campaign, the party raised almost as much as it did in the first two weeks of the 2017 election campaign.
Like so many other developments in this general election campaign, this story illustrates a stark contrast between the Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour Party and Boris Johnson’s hard-right Tories.
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