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Labour Together without the class struggle?
NICK WRIGHT finds some sensible thinking in the newly released ‘plan for national reconstruction’ – but a failure to look squarely at the reality of private ownership and how it distorts society renders the project impotent
LYNNE WALSH previews the Bristol Radical History Conference this weekend
Keir Starmer’s £120 million to Sudan cannot cover the government’s complicity in the RSF genocide or atone for the long shadow of British colonialism and imperialism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
Join the traditional march from Clerkenwell Green, which will bring together countless international workers’ organisations in a statement against the far right
Ecuador’s election wasn’t free — and its people will pay the price under President Noboa
Mountains of research show that hardcore material harms children, yet there are still no simple measures in place
We face austerity, privatisation, and toxic influence. But we are growing, and cannot be beaten
MUCH of Westminster Labour found an electoral victory with Jeremy Corbyn as leader a more unnerving prospect than defeat.
From within the Westminster bubble Labour’s meteoritic rise in the weeks before polling day in 2017 challenged the collective sense of self and the foundations of their political thought.
The strategic assumptions which all Labour’s Establishment tendencies shared — the notion that the middle ground in politics is critical, that undecided voters in swing constituencies are the target demographic — were subverted by the runaway success of Labour’s radical manifesto proposals which reached parts of the electorate barely touched by electoral politics.
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The left must avoid shouting ‘racist’ and explain that the socialist alternative would benefit all
The left must confront both far-right bigotry and the undeniable problems the exploitation of migrant workers by the ruling class creates — but there are few lessons from the global left on how to strike this balance, laments NICK WRIGHT
Xenophobic hysteria over the statistically insignificant number of small-boat crossings deliberately conceals how capitalism manipulates population flows for profit — if we can explain that, we’ll beat the right, argues NICK WRIGHT
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