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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It's not fascism, but it must be fought
TONY CONWAY, convenor of the Communist Party’s Anti Racist and Anti Fascist Commission, assesses the situation for anti-fascists in light of Johnson's shock majority
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has a history of race-baiting comments
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
THERE has been a lot written as to why the Labour lost the general election, some of which appears to suggest the Conservative Party is either fascist or leading the country in this direction – and voters, particularly those in the north and the Midlands, voted Tory for racist reasons.
The Conservative Party is not a fascist party. No doubt fascists exist within it. Tommy Robinson has said he has joined for instance, as has Katie Hopkins. Today it has right-wing elements – but it always has, for example the right-wing Monday Club. But this doesn’t make it fascist.
It can perhaps now be defined as a right-wing English nationalist party. There are similarities which have been used by some to define the Tories as proto-fascist — populism and scapegoating for example, but privileged elites such as banks, the City and so on have not been attacked and the populist sloganeering amounted to “Get Brexit Done” — which was a response to the failure by Parliament to do what it said it would do in 2017.
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