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DAVID ROSENBERG asks what lessons we can draw from the Forde report into allegations of anti-semitism in the Labour Party
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer visits the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin as part of a two-day visit to the German capital, in July 2022
CHRIS HOOFE calls for support for GMB’s Potters’ Pledge campaign, aimed at making sure the historic pottery industry based in Stoke-on-Trent is supported over cheap, low-quality imports and counterfeits
Investing the £75 billion slated for defence spending on a green new deal, healthcare and education would create jobs and help communities far more than weapons spending, argues UCU general secretary JO GRADY
Speaking to the Morning Star’s Ceren Sagir, general secretary of the National Union of Journalists LAURA DAVISON outlines the threats to journalism from Palestine to Britain, and the unique challenges confronting the industry through the rise of AI
We must organise broad-based counterprotests and celebratory local community events to rebuild class consciousness and challenge the far-right’s divisive lies, writes KEVIN COURTNEY, ahead of this Saturday’s big demo in London
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE
AT a demonstration several weeks ago, I bumped into a veteran Labour activist and former MP who I hadn’t seen for ages. She told me of her neighbour’s deep frustration about the endless delays regarding the publication of the Forde report — her neighbour was Martin Forde.
That chat raised my expectations. I still anticipated that his sharpest criticisms would be blunted before publication, but that proved only partly true.
Forde’s framing depicts a party mired in “toxic factionalism” in the Jeremy Corbyn years, deeming zealous activists of the left and right equally responsible.
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