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
Is Palestine the end of the road for the Labour Party?
The awful events in the Middle East have shown Starmer and his acolytes in their true colours – and it is not a pretty sight, says BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer on stage speaking during the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, October 11, 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
WHILE it may be too early to ascertain how much damage has been done to the Labour Party, Keir Starmer’s obsequiousness to Israel’s apartheid state has undoubtedly cost it a great deal of goodwill, particularly among those Muslim communities that would normally be inclined to offer it unqualified support.
Already we are witnessing a steady stream of councillors resigning the Labour whip in protest against Starmer’s refusal to condemn atrocities committed by the occupiers of Palestine and because of the appalling comments made by the likes of Emily Thornberry and David Lammy as they toured the TV studios in order to give unqualified backing to the genocidal Netanyahu regime and Israel’s “right to defend itself.”
There is, of course, nothing new in the Parliamentary Labour Party’s connivance with the global forces of reaction, be they in or out of government.
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