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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Halting imperialism’s drive to war
JOHN FOSTER discusses the role of communists in responding to the aggressive militarisation initiated by the US in a world that faces an unprecedented period of acute crisis, as he introduces the international resolution for this autumn's Communist Party Congress
The HMS Queen Elizabeth en route to make trouble in the China seas
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
LAST year, in celebrating the Communist Party’s 100th anniversary, tribute was paid to past comrades who committed their lives to the struggle against imperialism. In the 1920s and ’30s they included Joan Beauchamp, Rajani Palme Dutt and the Communist MP for Battersea Shapurji Saklatvala.
In the 1950s the Daily Worker journalist Alan Winnington faced treason charges if he returned to Britain after exposing British and American atrocities in Korea. In the 1970s there were the London Recruits who risked their lives in apartheid South Africa.
All saw the fight for peace and socialism as inextricably linked to the fight against imperialism. They understood that capitalism in its monopoly phase is inherently expansionist, that its political and economic survival requires external exploitation.
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