As food and fuel run out, Gaza’s doctors appeal to the world to end the ‘genocide of children,’ reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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
While Trump threatens to send Haitian gang leaders to El Salvador's terror prison, DANNY SHAW reveals how these paramilitary groups are merely symptoms of US-backed neocolonial rule — the real terrorists are the CIA and international actors arming desperate youth to traumatise an unarmed population
Having endured 14 years of Tory austerity followed by Starmerite cuts, young voters are desperate for change — but Anas Sarwar’s refusal to differentiate from Westminster means Scottish Labour risks electoral catastrophe, writes LAUREN HARPER
Mark Harvey pays tribute to a veteran of the days when the London building trade was a hotbed of working-class struggle, a legendary trade unionist, communist and poet
Rather than hoping for the emergence of some new ‘party of the left,’ EMMA DENT COAD sees a broad alliance of local parties and community groups as a way of reviving democratic progressive politics
ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians
The obfuscation of Nazism’s capitalist roots has seen imperialism redeploy fascism again and again — from the killing fields of Guatemala to the war in Ukraine, writes PAWEL WARGAN
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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