After years hidden away, Oldham’s memorial to six local volunteers who died fighting fascism in the Spanish civil war has been restored to public view, marking both a victory for campaigners and a renewed tribute to the town’s proud International Brigade heritage, says ROB HARGREAVES
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Resist and defeat the Tories
DIANE ABBOTT believes there is a popular appetite for confronting the government and the unions have already shown the way forward
Polls show majority support for workers taking strike action to win higher pay
While pretending to seek peace, Europe is heading toward a collision course with Russia – using security guarantees, troop deployments, expropriation and censorship as tools, writes SEVIM DAGDELEN
Alba party leader KENNY MacASKILL makes some suggestions on how to save our pubs and reduce irresponsible drinking
The catastrophe unfolding in Gaza – where Palestinians are freezing to death in tents – is not a natural disaster but a calculated outcome of Israel’s ongoing blockade, aid restrictions and continued violence, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Opinion polls point to electoral collapse, parliamentary rebellion and a looming leadership challenge as Starmer’s Labour haemorrhages working-class support and the far right exploits the vacuum left by a hollowed-out party, says NICK WRIGHT
The long-term effects of chemical weapons such as Agent Orange mean that the impact of war lasts well beyond a ceasefire
THE warm favourite to win the Tory leadership contest is Liz Truss. But there is no good outcome for the majority of people in this country, despite sections of the liberal press trying to drum up support for Rishi Sunak, the author of vicious austerity measures as recently as March this year.
The entire Tory parliamentary party has a common aim of making working people and the poor pay for a crisis they did not cause.
The practical outcome of this entirely undemocratic selection process will be to instal yet another Tory administration, the fourth in six years, which will operate solely in the interests of the 1 per cent of the population.
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DIANE ABBOTT exposes the misconceptions, rumours and downright lies perpetrated around immigration issues
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
British Steel has vindicated what the left has said all along — nationalisation of our key industries is common sense, and it’s the neoliberals who are now clearly the ideologically driven zealots, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
You only have to look at the dire polling of Labour’s sister parties in Europe to see that aping the hard right on migration leads to spectacularly bad results, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP