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The Farage threat: how the ex-stockbroker outmanoeuvres the Establishment parties
Reform’s rise speaks to a deep crisis in Establishment parties – but relies on appealing to social and economic grievances the left should make its own, argues NICK WRIGHT
Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage speaking during a campaign event at Stafford Showground, Stafford, whilst campaigning for this week's local elections, April 30, 2025
While Trump threatens to send Haitian gang leaders to El Salvador's terror prison, DANNY SHAW reveals how these paramilitary groups are merely symptoms of US-backed neocolonial rule — the real terrorists are the CIA and international actors arming desperate youth to traumatise an unarmed population
Having endured 14 years of Tory austerity followed by Starmerite cuts, young voters are desperate for change — but Anas Sarwar’s refusal to differentiate from Westminster means Scottish Labour risks electoral catastrophe, writes LAUREN HARPER
Mark Harvey pays tribute to a veteran of the days when the London building trade was a hotbed of working-class struggle, a legendary trade unionist, communist and poet
Rather than hoping for the emergence of some new ‘party of the left,’ EMMA DENT COAD sees a broad alliance of local parties and community groups as a way of reviving democratic progressive politics
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The obfuscation of Nazism’s capitalist roots has seen imperialism redeploy fascism again and again — from the killing fields of Guatemala to the war in Ukraine, writes PAWEL WARGAN
IT LOOKS like Nigel Farage is getting better at politics than any of the Establishment parties.
Last week’s round of local elections sampled the mood of English voters in some counties and towns. Reform UK harvested a good crop of Tory seats hung over from the big boost Boris Johnson’s party got for Getting Brexit Done. And what remained of Labour in these parts was humiliated.
In every one of the more prosperous shires — where even the middle class is beginning to feel the pinch — there are many thousands of workers, many on low pay and in insecure or seasonal jobs. Labour has abandoned any vestige of being a party for workers and its presence in these areas is now equally vestigial.
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In the first of two pieces, NICK WRIGHT examines the rise of Reform UK and its parallels with France’s National Rally, warning of the dangers that lie ahead for a left without convincing answers to rising anti-immigration sentiment