As tens of thousands return to the streets for the first national Palestine march of 2026, this movement refuses to be sidelined or silenced, says PETER LEARY
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Progressive patriotism: the historical detail is important
Socialist historian KEITH FLETT looks at an example from the past given by Rebecca Long Bailey in her advocation of ‘progressive patriotism’
Lancashire mill workers in the 1920s
If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used
One of Canada’s most revered politicians is a native of Falkirk but is relatively unknown in his original homeland. KENNY MacASKILL tells his story
Labour prospects in May elections may be irrevocably damaged by Birmingham Council’s costly refusal to settle the year-long dispute, warns STEVE WRIGHT
HENRY FOWLER and ROB POOLE explain the significance of today’s Megapicket
REBECCA LONG BAILEY is now officially the standard-bearer of the left in the Labour leadership election.
She is not of course some kind of “continuity Corbyn” candidate but a leadership contender with her own perspectives for the 2020s.
She laid some of these out in a recent article in the Guardian.
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