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
Social democracy and the riots
ANDREW MURRAY unpicks the politics that finds Starmer’s Labour playing an enabling role towards the far right and opposing anti-fascist popular mobilisation
STARMER DEFAULT: Keir Starmer with Met Commissioner Mark Rowley and Commander Ben Russell in the Command and Control Special Operations Room last Friday
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
THAT the first big event of the Labour government would have been far-right racist rioting across the country was not widely anticipated.
There are, however, two different reasons why it might have been.
First, the right has frequently deployed extra-parliamentary force against Labour governments as a form of political pressure. Elements are always unreconciled to any Labour government ever.
Even Tony Blair was exposed to this, with the anti-fuel tax mobilisations of 2000 bringing the country briefly to a standstill. That drama was organised and promoted by the Daily Mail and justified by the Telegraph on the grounds that parliamentary democracy, which had recently yielded a huge Labour majority, was defunct.
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