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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Making waves for Corbyn
Corbyn’s leadership destroyed the cosy Establishment consensus that austerity was necessary and there’s greater class consciousness than there has been for decades. These are good reasons why the left should not give up, writes CHELLEY RYAN
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 right-wing media are having orgasms over the anti-democratic decision of Sir Keir Starmer and the NEC to prevent the members of Islington North from reselecting Jeremy Corbyn as their candidate for the fourth decade running.
According to Starmer’s motion voted on by the NEC, Corbyn puts a Labour victory in jeopardy because he single-handedly lost the 2019 general election.
The bulldozing of the “red wall” by Boris Johnson with his winning “Get Brexit done” slogan has absolutely nothing to do with the slippery, empty vessel that is the current Labour leader.
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