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The betrayal of labour
Today’s US trade union movement bears the deep scars of the purges of hundreds of thousands of communists and militants, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Class warrior: Wyndham Mortimer in 1936
LYNNE WALSH previews the Bristol Radical History Conference this weekend
Keir Starmer’s £120 million to Sudan cannot cover the government’s complicity in the RSF genocide or atone for the long shadow of British colonialism and imperialism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
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Ecuador’s election wasn’t free — and its people will pay the price under President Noboa
Mountains of research show that hardcore material harms children, yet there are still no simple measures in place
We face austerity, privatisation, and toxic influence. But we are growing, and cannot be beaten
“NOR can I understand how men who aspire to the leadership of labour are able to sacrifice labour’s interests in favour of the Democratic Party. I cannot understand men to whom a visit to the White House is more important than getting the workers out of the dog house” — Wyndham Mortimer.
At a time when ex-FBI chief James Comey’s self-serving, self-righteous book becomes a bestseller, in a season when ex-secretary of state Madeleine Albright, the enthusiastic apologist for genocide against Iraqi children, joins Comey on the bestseller list with a preposterous lecture on fascism, it may well be time to retreat to the library.
I found some solace and much enlightenment from a dusty, cobweb-infested paperback in a corner of a basement bookshelf.
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