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
Lula and Trump are on a collision course
The towering figures of the North American right and the South American left are set to clash this summer as Brazil hosts Brics, an alliance Trump is determined to smash, reports TONY BURKE
SCARING TRUMP: (Left to right) Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, China’s President Xi Jinping, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russia’s Foreign Minister at the Brics summit in Johannesburg, August 2023
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
THE second coming of Donald Trump has encouraged right-wing politicians in Europe and South America to line up behind the US president. Jair Bolsonaro, who lost the last Brazilian presidential election to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula) in 2022, thinks he could make a comeback. He said himself “Trump is back, and it’s a sign we’ll be back, too.”
But now he faces a jail term after he was formally accused of masterminding a conspiracy to overthrow the government and conduct a campaign of assassination of political enemies. Many experts, politicians and trade unions in Brazil expect him to be jailed.
Although it could happen, few see Trump riding to his rescue with threats of tariffs and attempts to destabilise the country; last time around, it was reported that the Trump administration lost interest in Bolsonaro.
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