A growing coalition, Cymru Together, is challenging traditional politics – calling for practical plans that connect climate action with economic justice, writes BETHAN SAYED
The betrayal of labour
Today’s US trade union movement bears the deep scars of the purges of hundreds of thousands of communists and militants, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Class warrior: Wyndham Mortimer in 1936
ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT delve into the strange, active – and sometimes predatory – world of plants
While politicians fixate on defence budgets, the real answers lie in peace-building and economic justice, says ALAN SIMPSON
ANDREA BRADLEY highlights how a City of Glasgow College health and safety dispute is the subject of an STUC Congress emergency motion
Labour government must urgently start to implement the policies on which it got elected, or it will face curtains, writes BRIAN LEISHMAN MP
CND and the Stop the War Coalition are calling for a mass protest this Saturday to end British complicity in illegal US strikes at RAF Fairford. SOPHIE BOLT explains
“NOR can I understand how men who aspire to the leadership of labour are able to sacrifice labour’s interests in favour of the Democratic Party. I cannot understand men to whom a visit to the White House is more important than getting the workers out of the dog house” — Wyndham Mortimer.
At a time when ex-FBI chief James Comey’s self-serving, self-righteous book becomes a bestseller, in a season when ex-secretary of state Madeleine Albright, the enthusiastic apologist for genocide against Iraqi children, joins Comey on the bestseller list with a preposterous lecture on fascism, it may well be time to retreat to the library.
I found some solace and much enlightenment from a dusty, cobweb-infested paperback in a corner of a basement bookshelf.
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