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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Together, trade unions and grassroots campaigns can defeat racism
Building links between workers and communities can assist in the battle to dismantle racist oppression, writes GAWAIN LITTLE
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
THE mainstream media seem to have moved on from covering the Black Lives Matter protests which rocked Britain, the US and many other countries in the wake of the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police.
Papers and news channels which carried opinion pieces and editorials arguing that this must be “a movement not a moment,” and that our response to racism needs to be deep and sustained, have been notable for the speed with which they found something else to focus on.
Yet, if we look at our society — from the tragic roll-call of deaths in custody to the black children failed by and excluded from our education system, from the high-profile politicians (including the Prime Minister) who utter racist bile with impunity to the migrants whose lives are torn apart by racist immigration laws, it is clear that something fundamental needs to change.
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