As tens of thousands return to the streets for the first national Palestine march of 2026, this movement refuses to be sidelined or silenced, says PETER LEARY
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Authoritarianism deepens as liberals delude themselves
There has been no 'victory over populism' and a return to '90s style corporate stability in Europe or the US: callous hard-right politics is growing and any respite is purely in the minds of an out-of-touch neoliberal establishment, warns KEVIN OVENDEN
A man holds a sign reading "When’s the vaccine against police violence" during a demonstration on Saturday December 5 in Paris against dangerous proposed laws to prevent members of the public from filming the police
If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used
One of Canada’s most revered politicians is a native of Falkirk but is relatively unknown in his original homeland. KENNY MacASKILL tells his story
Labour prospects in May elections may be irrevocably damaged by Birmingham Council’s costly refusal to settle the year-long dispute, warns STEVE WRIGHT
HENRY FOWLER and ROB POOLE explain the significance of today’s Megapicket
WITH trade talks between Britain and the EU going down to the wire, there were sighs of relief in European capitals on Thursday that a second crisis had been averted.
In fact, the deal struck with the Polish and Hungarian governments not to veto the bloc’s budget and recovery fund for next year has kicked the can down the road in typical EU fashion.
The two hard-right regimes secured a political agreement that weakens a legal mechanism to halt disbursement of those funds to states deemed by the European Commission to be in breach of the EU’s version of the “rule of law.”
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