Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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Anty-capitalists and anty-communists
How do we hold on to the belief in our own power to contribute to the world in a huge and complex society of billions of people? Sometimes it helps to watch ants, explain ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL
Washington’s lawless behaviour towards countries in the region it considers its ‘back yard’ should be condemned by all law-abiding people, says LUKE DANIELS
In part I of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY takes a look at the early days of organising government workers
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
The shadow lord chancellor has recently made a name for himself as an rabid hater of immigration – but there are exceptions to every rule, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Plaid Cymru’s front-bench spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in a two-part series, analyses the Caerphilly by-election and the wider political scene in Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd election
IN A world of nearly eight billion people, it can be easy to feel small and unimportant. Particularly when the political climate is hostile and the prospects for change seem bleak.
Nevertheless, change is made by the people that work together to build incredible things. The great pyramids and cathedrals, all of the grandeur of human engineering, the feats of mass education, health provision and food distribution are built by people working together to create the world we live in.
Even where these feats have been made by people coerced by violence or deprivation, they show the total reliance of capital and bosses on the incredible power produced entirely by workers.
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