As tens of thousands return to the streets for the first national Palestine march of 2026, this movement refuses to be sidelined or silenced, says PETER LEARY
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Unions step in and mobilise Democratic vote for victory
With the Democratic Party and AFL-CIO organisations on the ground totally out of touch, the United Steelworkers union stepped in and successfully organised a Democratic win in Alabama’s senate election. MARK GRUENBERG reports
If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used
One of Canada’s most revered politicians is a native of Falkirk but is relatively unknown in his original homeland. KENNY MacASKILL tells his story
Labour prospects in May elections may be irrevocably damaged by Birmingham Council’s costly refusal to settle the year-long dispute, warns STEVE WRIGHT
HENRY FOWLER and ROB POOLE explain the significance of today’s Megapicket
DAN FLIPPO, the Birmingham-based United Steelworkers (USW) union district director for the Deep South, noticed something interesting when he looked at Republican US Senate nominee Roy Moore’s last run for statewide office, several years ago.
Moore barely won his state supreme court seat statewide. He also won Mobile, and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump won Mobile by 14 percentage points in 2016.
If we can reverse that result in Mobile, Flippo thought, we can beat Moore.
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