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
Global crises demand working-class answers
Working-class perspectives are missing from crucial debates on international diplomacy, climate change and war — and Trump’s return makes it even more important we communists put them across, writes RICHARD HEBBERT
HUNGER AS WEAPON: Residents of Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip in front of a bakery hoping to to get their some bread on November 21 2024
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
WORKERS are looking at the world from Cop29 to Gaza, from the US and Europe to Britain’s streets and the corridors of Whitehall and asking: where do our voices get a hearing?
It’s also an urgent question for communists and progressive activists everywhere as governments — hell-bent on economic growth at any cost — prioritise the interests of monopoly capital over the collective needs of those who elect them. This enables the political right and far right to make gains with their offer of a return to “national greatness,” itself supposedly founded on self-help, a small state and popular consensus.
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