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Love socialism, rebuild Britain, transform Europe. What is not to like in this line-up?
NICK WRIGHT challenges the veracity of the new ‘Love Socialism’ group campaigning to ‘remain and reform’ the EU
October 2025 was another Black History Month. Has Britain learned anything – or are we going backwards, asks CLAUDIA WEBBE
Real action is needed to make sure tragedies like that at Huntingdon never happen again. TSSA leader MARYAM ESLAMDOUST suggests some practical, achievable steps to be taken
VINCE MILLS sizes up the problems facing Your Party north of the border as it grapples with a range of policies, including its approach to Scottish independence
MARK SERWOTKA issues a rallying call to those committed to building a new radical socialist party of the working class to commit to real democracy, not imaginary or performative gestures
Scholar of Latin America, journalist and anti-imperialist, who leaves a powerful intellectual and political legacy
AFTER decades in which New Labour’s leaders emptied the word socialism of any radical or transformative meaning, it is a pleasurable change to find Labour politicians giving it pride of place in their political lexicon.
The call to rebuild Britain evokes positive feelings. Decades of neoliberal political and economic policies have destroyed a substantial part of Britain’s manufacturing industry and added to the drag on productive investment that the casino economy so favoured by the City entails.
And what socialist does not desire a transformation of Europe?
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