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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Heart and street politics keep privatisation at bay in Stroud
SKEENA RATHOR, RICHARD HOUSE and DAVID LAMBERT describe how the privatisation juggernaut was halted in Stroud through committed street activism and the politics of the heart.
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
STANDING proudly at the heart of the far-from-sleepy Cotswold town of Stroud in Gloucestershire is a very beautiful building with an auspicious history reaching right back to the 1830s, a building in which people have collectively danced, sung, laughed and cried, where concerts have moved people to tears, where actors have come alive to their skills, where some of the nations’s most iconic bands have performed, where Stroudies have met the love of their lives and where others have nursed a broken heart. It’s a building which very much belongs (both literally and emotionally) to the people of Stroud — our Subscription Rooms, or Subs Rooms.
Sadly in this age of austere suffering, it was deemed “too expensive” to keep in community hands earlier this year.
In an age of the new Dickensian poverty for so many in our society, it is apparently unnecessary for a council to fund a centre of merriment, entertainment and education.
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