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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Historical revisionism – it's coming home
The conflict in Ukraine means that the struggle over historical revisionism — especially equating the Nazi regime with the Soviet Union — has now taken a great leap forward, warns PHIL KATZ
A modern Russian tank lays in ruins in front of a monument to the Red Army victory over the Nazis in the town of Trostsyanets, 250 miles east of Kiev
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
IN the many public meetings I have spoken at on this subject I always end by saying that the search for historical truth and opposition to historical revisionism and Holocaust relativism is an important ideological struggle for our labour and peace movements.
Last week’s attack on transport union leaders is a case in point. The implication of the Daily Mail attacks on figures in the RMT is that the union supports appeasement and the wrong side of history.
The RMT of course is one of a number of unions balloting to take action against the cost of living crisis so the attack seeks to stigmatise the left and disorientate members.
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