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Can we start a cross-continental movement to fight the right?
Today’s No Pasaran conference answers why international solidarity and co-operation are urgently needed, writes KATE HUDSON
In the 1990s and 2000s British contingents mobilised for anti-globalisation protests across Europe - now we need the same against the far right
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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
TODAY, hundreds are gathering in central London for the the ¡No Pasaran! conference — to confront the rise of the far right and plan for co-operation and co-ordinated action to meet the threats we face.
There is no doubt the issue is taken seriously in our movement: Esther Lynch, confederal secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation is joining us, alongside trade unionists, activists and politicians from across the continent, together with our shadow home secretary Diane Abbott MP, film maker Ken Loach and author and activist Tariq Ali. Dozens of organisations and campaigns are supporting the day’s events.
The urgency of this issue is growing. The far right has had a real boost with the election of Trump to the White House; they are increasingly internationalised, well-funded and well-organised. Sometimes their victories come through the ballot box, but the ongoing economic and political attacks on Venezuela are another example of how aggressive and resurgent far-right politics operate — and military intervention to hammer that home may not be far away. The victory of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil has already extended this wave into Latin America — and Trump’s eyes are also on Cuba and Nicaragua. What is happening in Latin America requires close scrutiny because this could be the shape of things to come elsewhere if we don’t get organised.
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