Trade unions need to step up and force a turn in the policies of the labour movement to effectively confront the far-right threat, argues NICK WRIGHT
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The new London Poverty Profile is a wake-up call
Residents of the capital have been forced to watch financial capital swirl above their heads, never trickling down with lessons for Labour across the whole of Britain, says NATHAN AKEHURST
As the 90th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish civil war is marked, Teesside campaigners will gather to remember the local men and women who stood against fascism, explains TONY FOX
Whatever differences exist among international sympathisers of the Bolivarian revolution about its current trajectory, they should unite against the imperialist power that is the source of an enforced retreat, argues ROGER D HARRIS
Washington’s inability to subjugate Iran is an example of how it is trying to preserve a regional order that no longer exists, argues RAMZY BAROUD
US financial instability is exposing the limits of a dollar-dominated global economy — and giving the Global South a historic chance to build an alternative, says MURAD QURESHI
Deprivation is a fundamental factor in criminal behaviour that must be addressed but, KENNY MacASKILL argues, there needs to a major rethink in sentencing to tackle overcrowding
I HAVE now lived at all four ends of London. Near the end of the Holloway Road, in Jeremy Corbyn’s north London constituency, which sweeps through a borough where two in five children are in poverty.
Kensington and Chelsea to the west, where life expectancy can drop a decade over the course of a zebra crossing. In the East End, where Canary Wharf bankers overlook condemned housing estates. And Lambeth in the south, a short walk from Parliament yet synonymous with deprivation since the days of Oliver Twist.
All are teeming with life and culture and community and a defiant, driven spirit. All are so much more than their grim data, which is exhibited in Trust for London’s newest London poverty profile this week. And yet that data gives a forensic portrait of how crippled our city is.
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