Robinson successfully defended his school from closure, fought for the unification of the teaching unions, mentored future trade union leaders and transformed teaching at the Marx Memorial Library, writes JOHN FOSTER
Refugee-hate and rabble-rousing: who are Patriotic Alternative?
LOUISE RAW talks with anti-fascists who found themselves having to physically protect from attack a Knowsley hotel where refugees were being housed, and lifts the lid on some of the far-right thugs who have been stirring up trouble around the country
Police in riot gear after a demonstration outside the Suites Hotel in Knowsley, Merseyside, where people were protesting against asylum seekers staying at the hotel.
A judge in a German court ruled that the ban activity imposed on renowned Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah was unlawful, reports LEON WYSTRYCHOWSKI
At the very moment Britain faces poverty, housing and climate crises requiring radical solutions, the liberal press promotes ideologically narrow books while marginalising authors who offer the most accurate understanding of change, writes IAN SINCLAIR
From Gaza protest bans to proscribing Palestine Action, political elites are showing a crisis of confidence as they abandon Roy Jenkins’s apologetic approach for Suella Braverman’s aggressive ‘hate march’ rhetoric, writes PAUL DONOVAN
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the legal case behind this weekend’s Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival and the lessons for today
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
The summer of 1950 saw Labour abandon further nationalisation while escalating Korean War spending from £2.3m to £4.7m, as the government meekly accepted capitalism’s licence and became Washington’s yes-man, writes JOHN ELLISON
JAMES SHAND was 30 years old in when he left his home in Southbrook Road, Streatham, to drive 250 miles to Rhyl in north Wales. He was going, he thought, to meet and have sex with a girl he’d so far only “met” online.
The plan was to pick her up and then drive to Warrington, where Shand had booked a hotel room (with one, double, bed).
But he got the shock of his life instead — north Wales police officers stopped and arrested him on the A55.
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