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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Unity is needed against far-right hatred
The Tory government has deliberately whipped up anti-migrant feelings in a cynical attempt to draw attention away from the economic crisis it created, says MARC WADSWORTH
Police officers on the scene outside the Suites Hotel in Knowsley
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
PERHAPS one of South African Nobel peace prize-winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s most famous quotes is: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
With the appalling scenes on TV news this month of far-right thugs using firebombs and setting alight a police van outside a hotel on Merseyside, where refugees they were violently protesting against were cowering inside, never before did the great statesman’s wise words ring truer.
The black-led anti-racist campaign, The Liberation Movement (TLM), of which I’m co-founder, has joined 180 organisations that signed a Together With Refugees-initiated open letter to leaders of all parties in response to the appalling attack on the Suites Hotel in Knowsley, where asylum-seekers are housed.
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