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
Chokepoint canals: How climate and politics threaten global shipping
Man-made canals like Panama and Suez face unprecedented challenges from extreme weather patterns and geopolitical tensions that reveal the fragility of our global trade networks, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
MORE THAN A WATERWAY: The Agua Clara (Clear Water) locks on Gatun Lake, Panama Canal in September 2019
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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
IN today’s modern, globalised world, we often take for granted that many of the commodities we use in daily life begin as raw materials thousands of miles away. These raw materials require extraction, assembly and, crucially, transportation before they are placed on the consumer market to be sold.
Marx’s second volume of Capital emphasises the importance of circulation as an essential feature possessed by capital: “Capital as self-expanding value embraces not only class relations... It is a movement, a circulatory process going through various stages.”
Globalisation has meant that transportation of capital in the commodity-form is something that occurs on a worldwide scale. Key to the transport of commodities (everything from computers to clothes to petrol) are global shipping routes.
The Panama Canal is an artificial waterway created through the narrow strip of land in Central America that separates the Pacific Ocean from the Caribbean Sea. It is an essential conduit for maritime trade, meaning that ships can circumvent the long and dangerous route around the southernmost tip of South America when travelling from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean.
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While politicians condemned fascist bombing of Spanish civilians in 1937, they ignored identical RAF tactics across the colonies. Today’s aerial warfare continues this pattern of applying different moral standards based on geography and race, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
The distinction between domestic and military drones is more theoretical than practical, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
Nature's self-reconstruction is both intriguing and beneficial and as such merits human protection, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
