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Why it’s my great hope that RMT will reaffiliate to Labour
Socialism in our time is the prize we are striving for and through unity we can bring it about, writes CHRIS WILLIAMSON
While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE
Unison Scotland’s BRENDA AITCHISON says her union won’t tolerate further cuts to public services
The Danish Communist Party’s Lotte Rortoft-Madsen assesses the fallout from US threats to annex the huge Arctic island
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
AS trade unionists and socialists in Britain celebrate International Labour Day today, it is worth remembering just how far we have come since this time last year.
Theresa May had called a snap general election 12 days earlier and, according to the opinion polls, support for Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party was languishing below 30 per cent.
By contrast, support for the Conservative Party seemed to be soaring, with poll ratings putting them at between 19 to 24 points ahead.
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Your Party can become an antidote to Reform UK – but only by rooting itself in communities up and down the country, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
While Reform poses as a workers’ party, a credible left alternative rooted in working-class communities would expose their sham — and Corbyn’s stature will be crucial to its appeal, argues CHELLEY RYAN
