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History suggests apartheid ends not through appeals to conscience alone but through sustained economic and political pressure, says HUGH LANNING
A Week in Politics: Con-Dems dream up a Kafka nightmare
The PADDY McGUFFIN column
As the US marks 250 years since the Declaration of Independence, the People’s World Editorial Collective argues that the real legacy of 1776 lies not in official celebrations but in centuries of popular struggles to make democracy a reality for all
Once a source of national pride, Cuba’s healthcare system declines as energy shortages deepen crisis, writes ANDREA RODRIGUEZ
Socialists, feminists and trade unionists gathered in Manchester to launch a network committed to evidence-based activism with a renewed emphasis on class and collective struggle. ANNA BARRETT reports
By making it simpler to support workers in struggle, Strike Map’s new Solidarity Fund aims to strengthen strikes when they need it most, write ROBERT POOLE and HENRY FOWLER
Only an ambitious programme of state-led investment can restore growth and improve living standards, argues MICHAEL BURKE
“THEY’RE talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.” Franz Kafka, The Trial.
And thus we have, in a nutshell from the trembling pen of a consumptive Czech clerk, a fair approximation of the last two decades in British politics.
Kafka’s nightmare vision of the callous and ruthless nature of faceless bureaucracy is starting to look like a vision of a utopian future the way things have been going recently.
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