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
It’s back to basics for Labour
GRACE BLAKELEY speaks to Daniel Powell on challenges ahead for Labour voters in the post-pandemic Britain and forthcoming elections
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
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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 THE wake of a calamitously handled pandemic peak and growing calls for PM Johnson to resign with his guru-turned-nemesis Dominic Cummings sowing the seeds for yet another Tory psychodrama, political parties are preparing for a set of local, mayoral and assembly elections that will serve inevitably as a media barometer for the popularity of their leaders, amid the prospect of a possibly soon dis-United Kingdom.
Optimism for the liberties offered by the long awaited and much debated vaccine programme will be tempered by a lockdown-weary electorate keen to regain some semblance of a social life, amid the second summer of a long economic recession described by the Bank of England as the deepest since 1706. With all of this in mind, Grace Blakeley offers her own forecasts for the future of the economic and political landscape.
“A recession means there is more unemployment, lower wages, and workers have less bargaining power. Firms are being allowed to fire people and rehire them on insecure contracts, and automation means there are likely to be fewer jobs created over the long run because of the kind of investment we’re seeing in labour-saving technologies.
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