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Robinson successfully defended his school from closure, fought for the unification of the teaching unions, mentored future trade union leaders and transformed teaching at the Marx Memorial Library, writes JOHN FOSTER
Blood flows in aftermath of fraudulent Honduran election
A judge in a German court ruled that the ban activity imposed on renowned Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah was unlawful, reports LEON WYSTRYCHOWSKI
At the very moment Britain faces poverty, housing and climate crises requiring radical solutions, the liberal press promotes ideologically narrow books while marginalising authors who offer the most accurate understanding of change, writes IAN SINCLAIR
From Gaza protest bans to proscribing Palestine Action, political elites are showing a crisis of confidence as they abandon Roy Jenkins’s apologetic approach for Suella Braverman’s aggressive ‘hate march’ rhetoric, writes PAUL DONOVAN
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the legal case behind this weekend’s Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival and the lessons for today
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
The summer of 1950 saw Labour abandon further nationalisation while escalating Korean War spending from £2.3m to £4.7m, as the government meekly accepted capitalism’s licence and became Washington’s yes-man, writes JOHN ELLISON
AS many feared, the aftermath of the fraudulent Honduran election of November 26 has now degenerated into harsh repression and violent death.
Opposition to the corrupt right-wing regime of President Juan Orlando Hernandez of the National Party has boiled up as it has become obvious that an effort is under way to steal the election.
It was originally expected that Hernandez, a close US ally, would win re-election easily, but as the first vote tally, announced on November 28, showed a solid lead for Salvador Nasralla, the candidate of the centre-left Alliance of Opposition to the [Hernandez] Dictatorship (Alianza de Oposicion Contra la Dictadura).
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