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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Covid-19: learning from the past for a better future
A massively expanded state is needed with a greater role for unions and the people themselves: PROF KEITH EWING and LORD JOHN HENDY QC present 'a post-Covid-19 manifesto'
Amazon thanks NHS workers with a rainbow projection – yet the company is notorious for its treatment of its own staff
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
MUCH has been written in recent months from across the political spectrum about Lenin’s famous aphorism that “there are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
But apart from a determination that we should not return to the past, little time has been spent reflecting on Lenin’s even more famous question: “what is to be done?”
Now is the time for answers.
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