RAMZY BAROUD on how Israel’s narrative collides with military failure
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JAMIE TUCKNUTT reports on an initiative that brings together two epochs of the city’s anti-fascist struggles
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON: Joseph Andrews (left) and James Andrews
ROGER McKENZIE explains how Ibrahim Traore has sparked the flames of hope across Africa, while the Western powers seek to extinguish all attempts to build true sovereignty in the long-exploited continent
DANIEL GOVER considers the procedural complexities awaiting a Private Member’s Bill in its passage through Commons and Lords
Just as German Social Democrats joined the Nazis in singing Deutschland Uber Alles, ANDREW MURRAY observes how Starmer tries to out-Farage Farage with anti-migrant policies — but evidence shows Reform voters come from Tories, not Labour, making this ploy morally bankrupt and politically pointless
KEITH FLETT traces how the ‘world’s most successful political party’ has imploded since Thatcher’s fall, from nine leaders in 30 years to losing all 16 English councils, with Reform UK symbolically capturing Peel’s birthplace, Tamworth — but the beast is not dead yet
With turnout plummeting and faith in Parliament collapsing, BERT SCHOUWENBURG explains how radical local government reform — including devolved taxation and removal of party politics from town halls — could restore power to communities currently ignored by profit-obsessed MPs
As food and fuel run out, Gaza’s doctors appeal to the world to end the ‘genocide of children,’ reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
SUNDERLAND has a proud history of fighting fascism. A great source of pride for me is the fact that Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts, try as they might, could never get a foothold in Sunderland.
The working class, the very people that Mosely, like the right wing today, saw as ripe for exploitation and indoctrination, stood firm and met his attempted meetings and rallies head on.
We know the Communist Party prevented the British Union of Fascists (BUF) holding open air meetings in Sunderland; for example in May 1934 a meeting was stopped when the BUF speaker was “knocked off his box” by a Sunderland man who would later serve in the International Brigade in Spain.
