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The unpopularity of immigration remains a dilemma for the left
The left must confront both far-right bigotry and the undeniable problems the exploitation of migrant workers by the ruling class creates — but there are few lessons from the global left on how to strike this balance, laments NICK WRIGHT
ANGER GROWS: Protesters demonstrate in Dover against migrants in small boats crossing the Channel from France, 2020
The public recognise the corrosive influence of the rich over our democracy, argues MIKE COWLEY — it’s a shame the Labour Party doesn’t
JORDAN RIVERA and DEANA BROOKS assess the recently concluded 358-day strike, related disputes at other hospital trusts and lessons for future action
Nuclear safety experts warn that sweeping cuts to oversight rules could undermine environmental safeguards as the White House races to bring new reactors online by 2026, says CHAUNCEY K ROBINSON
Engels’ call for a structured, systematic, critique of capitalism and for a strategy for securing something better remains as relevant today as it did a century and a half ago, declares the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
As the Stop the War Coalition holds its annual conference, ANDREW MURRAY warns that Britain’s alignment with US foreign policy is fuelling global instability and diverting billions from welfare, wages and public services
IF the world turned upside down by recent events — encompassing the never-ending wars of imperialism, the 2008 financial crash, Labour’s complete degeneration and the cataclysmic split in the US ruling class — has taught us one thing it is that elaborate programmatic schemes inevitably come to grief on the rocks of a reality that is impossible to predict with any certainty.
In the Manifesto of the Communist Party drawn up in 1848 for the First International, its authors argued that the formulation “Workers of all lands unite” should replace the motto adopted by the utopian League of the Just: “All men are brothers.”
This recognised that in the actually existing capitalist society, every moral and political issue means something different to different classes.
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