Just as German Social Democrats joined the Nazis in singing Deutschland Uber Alles, ANDREW MURRAY observes how Starmer tries to out-Farage Farage with anti-migrant policies — but evidence shows Reform voters come from Tories, not Labour, making this ploy morally bankrupt and politically pointless
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JAMIE TUCKNUTT reports on an initiative that brings together two epochs of the city’s anti-fascist struggles
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON: Joseph Andrews (left) and James Andrews
KEITH FLETT traces how the ‘world’s most successful political party’ has imploded since Thatcher’s fall, from nine leaders in 30 years to losing all 16 English councils, with Reform UK symbolically capturing Peel’s birthplace, Tamworth — but the beast is not dead yet
With turnout plummeting and faith in Parliament collapsing, BERT SCHOUWENBURG explains how radical local government reform — including devolved taxation and removal of party politics from town halls — could restore power to communities currently ignored by profit-obsessed MPs
As food and fuel run out, Gaza’s doctors appeal to the world to end the ‘genocide of children,’ reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
While Trump threatens to send Haitian gang leaders to El Salvador's terror prison, DANNY SHAW reveals how these paramilitary groups are merely symptoms of US-backed neocolonial rule — the real terrorists are the CIA and international actors arming desperate youth to traumatise an unarmed population
Having endured 14 years of Tory austerity followed by Starmerite cuts, young voters are desperate for change — but Anas Sarwar’s refusal to differentiate from Westminster means Scottish Labour risks electoral catastrophe, writes LAUREN HARPER
Mark Harvey pays tribute to a veteran of the days when the London building trade was a hotbed of working-class struggle, a legendary trade unionist, communist and poet
SUNDERLAND has a proud history of fighting fascism. A great source of pride for me is the fact that Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts, try as they might, could never get a foothold in Sunderland.
The working class, the very people that Mosely, like the right wing today, saw as ripe for exploitation and indoctrination, stood firm and met his attempted meetings and rallies head on.
We know the Communist Party prevented the British Union of Fascists (BUF) holding open air meetings in Sunderland; for example in May 1934 a meeting was stopped when the BUF speaker was “knocked off his box” by a Sunderland man who would later serve in the International Brigade in Spain.
