Real security comes from having a secure base at home — Keir Starmer’s reckless and renegade decision to get Britain deeper into the proxy war against Russia is as dangerous as it is wasteful, writes SALLY SPIERS
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We’ll be developing a people’s manifesto for the 2026 local elections. We’ll network, learn, inspire and support each other and chart a future path for socialist politics, writes JAMIE DRISCOLL
Jamie Driscoll, speaking at the Convention of the North, January 25, 2023
The plan is to stigmatise and destabilise South Africa in preparation for breaking it up while creating a confused and highly racialised atmosphere around immigration in the US to aid in denying rights to non-white refugees, explains EMILE SCHEPERS
ALAN SIMPSON warns that Starmer’s triangulation strategy will fail just as New Labour’s did, with each rightward move by Labour pushing Tories further right
From the 1917 Balfour Declaration to today’s F-35 sales, Britain’s historical responsibility has now evolved into support for the present-day outright genocide. But our solidarity movement is growing too, writes BEN JAMAL
DIANE ABBOTT MP warns Starmer’s newly declared war on foreigners and scroungers won’t fix housing or services — only class struggle against austerity can do that, and defeat Farage in the process
Ben Chacko talks to ALAN MARDGHUM of the Durham Miners Association about Reform UK‘s dangerous inroads into Durham’s long-standing Labour county council; why he cancelled his party membership; and the political class’s disconnect from working people
Speaking to a CND meeting in Cambridge this week, SIMON BRIGNELL traced how the alliance’s anti-communist machinery broke unions, diverted vital funds from public services, and turned workers into cannon fodder for profit
IN 2014, two professors analysed 1,799 policy issues in the US. They found that, “the preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.”
We know that a whopping 88 per cent of Britons don’t trust political parties. Not least because governments respond to the demands of big money over individual citizens.
Wes Streeting increased NHS privatisation despite it being hugely unpopular. It makes no electoral sense. Until you check the register of donors, and find he accepted £372,000 from private healthcare companies. We have no idea what additional deals have been done for this future. Alan Milburn has made millions since retiring as health secretary. The list is long and nefarious. Tony Blair pimping himself out for global oil firms is just his latest outing.
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