BEN CHACKO reports on fears at TUC Congress that the provisions in the legislation are liable to be watered down even further

ONE of the traditional weaknesses of the British left has been its inconsistent responses to international crises.
This becomes particularly acute when British imperialism is itself strategically involved and the pressures of public opinion shaped by the Establishment media are felt most heavily.
While there have always been heroic episodes of internationalism in the labour and peace movements, the dominance of liberal rather than anti-imperialist perspectives has been a constant factor in the battle of ideas on the left, combined with the reality that the labour movement’s right wing has always aligned its interests with those of the British ruling class at home and abroad.

From 35,000 troops in Talisman Sabre war games to HMS Spey provocations in the Taiwan Strait, Labour continues Tory militarisation — all while claiming to uphold ‘one China’ diplomatic agreements from 1972, reports KENNY COYLE

The creative imagination is a weapon against barbarism, writes KENNY COYLE, who is a keynote speaker at the Manifesto Press conference, Art in the Age of Degenerative Capitalism, tomorrow at the Marx Memorial Library & Workers School in London

