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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Organising hope: trade unions’ vital role in combating racism
JOHN CARSON looks at how trade unions can move beyond the empty flags and slogans of the employers to create real change in workplaces and communities, with reps tackling the root causes of racism and xenophobia
Demonstrators during an anti-racism protest organised by Stand Up to Racism, in George Square, Glasgow, August 10, 2024
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 WEEK my good comrade, Adam Alarakhia, CWU’s Leicestershire Branch chair, was being interviewed by CWU Live and told quite a shocking story.
Amid the rioting and distress taking place across England and Northern Ireland, Adam said his son phoned him to ask if he could play outside on his bike, but Adam told him no, he couldn’t, the risk was just too much, too much for a father to allow his son to play outside in case something might happen to him — because he was black and because he was Muslim.
Our movement rightfully recoils at the scenes we have witnessed and the fear and tension that is being inflamed by far-right thugs. There have been demonstrations in over a dozen towns and cities in England and Northern Ireland.
In Rotherham and Tamworth in particular, violent thugs attempted to set fire to hotels hosting asylum-seekers — deliberately attacking and seeking harm on some of the most vulnerable people in our world.
Thankfully, we have not seen similar scenes here in Scotland so far, but it would be wrong for our movement to sleepwalk into Scottish exceptionalism.
While a recent ScotPulse poll found four in 10 people in Scotland wanted immigration reduced (compared to five in 10 in England) this was a 14-point increase on last year.
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