ANDREW MURRAY wonders what the great communist foe of Oswald Mosley would make of today’s far-right surge, warning that while the triumph of Farage and ‘Robinson’ is far from inevitable, placing any faith in Starmer in an anti-fascist front is a fool’s errand
Building an economic alternative during Covid-19
Our movement must use the pandemic to unite around a clear set of demands that protect public health and advance an alternative economic vision that puts working people before private profit once and for all, writes HELEN O'CONNOR
Staff preparing bays at the NHS Nightingale North East hospital in Sunderland
LOTTE COLLETT welcomes the arrival of a new party for the left, a vehicle for councils to finally fight for progressive policies on housing, green spaces and public facilities, rather than administering cuts and misery from central government
KEVAN NELSON reports back from a delegation to the epic celebrations for the anniversary of Vietnam’s 1945 revolution, where British communists found a thriving, prosperous socialist country, brimming with ambition and well-earned national pride
Our economic system is broken – and unless we break with the government’s obsession with short-termist private profit, things are destined to get worse, warns Mercedes Villalba
Following the resignation of Nepali Prime Minister KP Oli amid mass youth-driven protests, different narratives have circulated which simplify and misrepresent the complexities and reality on the ground in Nepal at the roots of this crisis, argue VIJAY PRASHAD and ATUL CHANDRA
The US is desperate to stop Honduras’s process of social and democratic change, writes TIM YOUNG
IT IS clear that the government strategy to prevent the transmission of Covid-19 is at best not working and at worst seriously compromised by the interests of big business.
It should be of concern to all that there are open and public admissions that this Tory government is ignoring scientists. In the meantime, a new language has been invented to try to convince the public that the government is doing a good job, as ineffective, partial lockdowns in which most public venues remain open are graded into “tiers” — and it would be easier for the public to visit the moon than benefit from “operation moonshot.”
Billions are being wasted on a failing test, track and trace system. Some £12 billion has already been handed over to these companies, some consultants are on over £6,000 a day.
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As more people on the left are now questioning the sex industry, HELEN O’CONNOR reports from a timely fringe at TUC Congress where women on the front line gave their perspective on why prostitution should never be considered ‘work’
With fascists and their supporters cynically and falsely posing as ‘defenders of women,’ the left must take violence against women seriously and gain a better understanding of women’s oppression, warns HELEN O’CONNOR
As some celebrate a pay rise, outsourced, privatised workers face continued exploitation — ending this injustice by bringing them in-house must become a top priority for the labour movement, writes HELEN O’CONNOR
HELEN O’CONNOR sees a worrying trend of women exiting the labour movement in their thousands, and warns that if this tide is not stemmed with proper and effective action, it will only be to the benefit of the capitalist class
