Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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Brexit: why October is good to go
FAWZI IBRAHIM argues Labour should support the government’s determination to leave the EU at the end of next month
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
LABOUR must learn from the mistakes Syriza made in Greece, come clean about the incompatibility of Labour’s industrial and economic plans with membership of the EU, and above all avoid doing the establishment’s dirty work.
The genie is out. The people voted to leave the EU. Those who want to put the genie back in the bottle will have their fingers burned. Labour’s support for a second referendum and its declared willingness to contemplate abandoning Brexit if that is what it takes to stop a no-deal Brexit is a death wish. Workers have no truck with their “betters” trying to put them back in their place.
Having voted to leave the EU, those who make it their business to thwart Brexit fall in the same category as those who manoeuvre to hinder and obstruct a workplace strike that was agreed in a democratic vote of a trade union’s membership.
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