Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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Taking the long view
In the first of two articles, VINCE MILLS examines the structural weakness at the base of the Corbyn movement which prevented socialist advance
DAYS OF HOPE: Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Party leader ahead of its annual conference in Brighton, 2015
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
THE recent vindictive and factional assault on Jeremy Corbyn by the Labour Leader Keir Starmer, part of a wider attack on the Labour left, has intensified calls for a new workers’ party, as have the “dog-whistle” attacks on the Tories on crime. It is difficult, given the situation, not to feel sympathetic to this, but socialists need to take a long view.
The Corbyn Project
The proximate cause for calls for a new left party is the collapse of the “Corbyn Project,” although that description gives it a sense of uniqueness, purpose even, that do not match its origins.
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VINCE MILLS cautions over the perils and pitfalls of ‘a new left party’
VINCE MILLS gathers some sobering facts that would inevitably be major obstacles to any such initiative
While VINCE MILLS laments the resignation of Neil Findlay from Scottish Labour, he explains why he won’t be joining him outside the party in the ongoing struggle for a socialist future
As polls show Scottish Labour’s support crumbling and Reform rising even among independence supporters, an urgent need emerges for an alternative based on public investment paid for by radical progressive taxation, argues VINCE MILLS