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
What should the British left make of the US presidential election?
Getting bogged down in the Trump v Harris divide is a distraction from the tasks of ending US hegemony and Britain’s subservience to Washington’s demands, argues ANDREW MURRAY
Republican US presidential candiate Donald Trump (left) and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris (right)
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
TRUMP or Harris? An unavoidable issue for any readers in the US, but not one most of us have to confront.
For the left in Britain it is the wrong question anyway. There is no good answer and chewing on it diverts our attention from where it should be — ending the hegemonic power and domineering aspirations of the US, and Britain’s alliance with it.
Happy the day when the result of US presidential elections is of interest exclusively to US citizens. That is what we should work for.
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