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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Brexit in the shires
NICK WRIGHT finds most Remainers ready to accept the core criticisms of the EU - but unable to join the dots and support Leave
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
ALL politics is, in the final analysis, local. Andrew Bowles was the Tory leader of Swale Borough Council on the North Kent coast until he was booted out by Faversham’s electors.
He achieved notoriety when the Tories briefly suspended him after he tweeted support for Stephen Yaxley-Lennon — alias “Tommy Robinson” — before reinstating him to lead the doomed Tory campaign in the council elections.
Faversham is a smallish town on the Thames estuary which has carried out a comprehensive cull of its council which has, with the exception of an occasional Labour or Lib Dem and a clutch of mostly progressive-minded independents, been a Conservative fiefdom ever since the brewing and shipbuilding town lost much of its industrial base.
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