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
If coronavirus is a war Britain and America are losing
The 'winners' so far are some of the losers of WW2 — Germany and Japan — and the industrialised nations of East Asia, including Vietnam, Korea, Taiwan and socialist China. If the West ever recovers, it will be changed forever, writes JOE GILL
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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
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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
THE battle to contain coronavirus is a war. The metaphor may be crude and a virus not a foreign army, but it does strike people down in the random ways that bombs do, even if buildings are all still standing. And as in real wars, it is the working class and minorities who face the brunt of danger and death.
Wars are brutal tests of societies and governments — historically they have marked the end of one era and the beginning of another, especially the great wars that defined the last century.
Coronavirus is a world pandemic and it has the quality of a total war too — all of economic and social life is affected and reorganised around fighting it.
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