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In or out of the EU, a transformative Labour government is what’s needed
Amid all the confusion over Brexit, it’s important to focus on what really matters to workers in the year ahead, writes DAVE WARD
Dave Ward joins CWU members on junior doctors' picket lines during an NHS dispute in 2016
ROGER McKENZIE explains how Ibrahim Traore has sparked the flames of hope across Africa, while the Western powers seek to extinguish all attempts to build true sovereignty in the long-exploited continent
DANIEL GOVER considers the procedural complexities awaiting a Private Member’s Bill in its passage through Commons and Lords
JAMIE TUCKNUTT reports on an initiative that brings together two epochs of the city’s anti-fascist struggles
Just as German Social Democrats joined the Nazis in singing Deutschland Uber Alles, ANDREW MURRAY observes how Starmer tries to out-Farage Farage with anti-migrant policies — but evidence shows Reform voters come from Tories, not Labour, making this ploy morally bankrupt and politically pointless
KEITH FLETT traces how the ‘world’s most successful political party’ has imploded since Thatcher’s fall, from nine leaders in 30 years to losing all 16 English councils, with Reform UK symbolically capturing Peel’s birthplace, Tamworth — but the beast is not dead yet
With turnout plummeting and faith in Parliament collapsing, BERT SCHOUWENBURG explains how radical local government reform — including devolved taxation and removal of party politics from town halls — could restore power to communities currently ignored by profit-obsessed MPs
SO WE still don’t know the outcome of the parliamentary vote on Theresa May’s Brexit deal, or whether there will even be one — she’s pushed it into the new year and can presumably push it further.
Like you all I’ve watched an incredible political storm unfold, trying to second guess what happens next. The only thing we can expect in politics now is the unexpected. It’s at times like these that I fall back on my instincts and experience.
And whatever I hear or read on Brexit I keep coming back to the same two points.
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