SOLOMON HUGHES highlights a 1995 Sunday Times story about the disappearance of ‘defecting Iraqi nuclear scientist.’ Even though the story was debunked, it was widely repeated across the mainstream press, creating the false – and deadly – narrative of Iraqi WMD that eventually led to war
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We shouldn’t applaud them – Airbus tycoons are our true EU rulers
Labour MPs cheering on threats of capital flight are everything thats wrong about the left’s current EU-naivety, writes EDDIE DEMPSEY
RUBY ALDEN GIBSON believes Scottish parliament has enough powers to curtail Westminster Labour’s savage attack on welfare
KEVIN DONNELLY reports from Monte Faudo and its annual remembrance of the region’s WWII partisan anti-fascist battles
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
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
AIRBUS CEO Tom Enders waded into British politics recently with a thinly veiled threat that Airbus would withdraw from Britain if we leave the EU without a deal, putting thousands of workers jobs at risk.
It reveals a familiar resentment: “We don’t need you — there are plenty of countries who would love to manufacture for us.”
It’s a refrain well-known to trade unionists everywhere who dare challenge the boss — “There are plenty more where you came from who would love to do your job. If you don’t like it you know where the door is.”
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