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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The Corbyn moment
MARK PERRYMAN argues that now – more than ever – is the time to transform Labour into a social movement
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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
THIS week my new best comrade George Osborne has described the impact of Jeremy Corbyn’s customs union speech as “the Labour leader, has with the smallest of nudges, manoeuvred himself into a more pro-business, more pro-free trade European policy than the Tory government.”
The question of whether this marks the Corbyn Moment stretches way beyond the ranks of the Corbynite Left.
Osborne meant those words as a compliment. Their provenance and meaning will, however, trouble many on Corbyn’s side. But this, dear comrades, is what hegemony looks like, our ideas becoming the new common sense. And without in essence even a smidgen of principle being sacrificed either.
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