The Trump government is seizing overseas students from their homes and campuses and even off the streets, with no legal grounds and no due process, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Workers killing workers is not ‘providing work’
Our unions need to make a firm stand against so-called ‘defence spending’: the boss class say there’s no magic money tree — and there should be no magic mushroom cloud either, argues NATHAN HENNEBRY
MAKING A KILLING: Anti-austerity marchers make the link between warfare and welfare in 2016
As global fascism grows, ROGER McKENZIE urges the left to reclaim May Day’s revolutionary roots — not as an act of nostalgia, but as fuel for building a ‘community of resistance’ against exploitation and the rise of fascism
KEITH FLETT revisits the 1978 origins of Britain’s May Day bank holiday — from Michael Foot’s triumph to Thatcher’s reluctant acceptance — as Starmer’s government dodges calls to expand our working-class celebrations
RMT leader Eddie Dempsey's stark warning shook up a fringe meeting at the Scottish TUC
Incredibly, US Republican states are systematically dismantling child labour protections, with children transformed back into the cheap, disposable workers of the Dickens era, reports ANDREW MURRAY
KYRIL WHITTAKER looks at what guides Vietnam 50 years after reunification
Scotland’s rapidly growing support for Reform UK is the result of a profound crisis of trust in mainstream politics — one that progressives share, and must harness, writes DEREK THOMSON
WHILE slashing both welfare and public services, Labour’s Spring Statement broke open the champagne for the arms industry. And so begins a new wave of austerity, brought to us by those who lied about their ambitions to fight it.
This blow to welfare and services comes at a time when poverty and workplace poverty in Britain continue to rise. So far, the governments of Westminster, Holyrood and the Senedd have failed to take measures to alleviate these conditions, and indeed attacks on our society’s most vulnerable are set to continue.
Pensioners have lost the winter fuel allowance, and the two-child limit on benefits remains in place. Those with disabilities are being threatened with £5 billion worth of cuts. Inflation is set to rise again due to the growing cost of energy and other costs. This will hit all workers, and particularly lower-paid ones who are already struggling.
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We need candidates ready to build a united front to defend our services and communities, and stand up against the politics of despair which can only grow when people ‘lose faith’ with the Establishment parties, argues NATHAN HENNEBRY
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We need candidates ready to build a united front to defend our services and communities, and stand up against the politics of despair which can only grow when people ‘lose faith’ with the Establishment parties, argues NATHAN HENNEBRY