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Strengths and weaknesses on display at Your Party’s founding conference
YOUR Party’s founding conference brought thousands of people to Liverpool at the weekend.
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Apropos ‘Western Civilization’
According to a report in the Times of India (November 23), the United States has asked European countries to restrict immigration in order to preserve “Western Civilization.” Many in the Third World would find the term “Western Civilization” laughable, especially if it is used in the sense of denoting something precious and worth preserving. The atrocities […]
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Socialism or Barbarism
Ahead of her talk at TWT, Zarah Sultana argues that we must ensure that initiatives like Your Party are inclusive projects to which the whole Left can contribute—and use them to take the socialist struggle onto the streets.
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Writing the Human Genome
A BOLD new project has been recently announced by a strong group of UK universities supported by the Wellcome Trust, which has more than £1 billion in funds.
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Labour is paving the path to fascism
As Labour embraces anti-migrant rhetoric, Jeremy Corbyn argues that the government is demonizing vulnerable people to distract from its domestic failures.
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Jeremy Corbyn: People have been denied an alternative
In a wide-ranging interview with Tribune, Jeremy Corbyn discusses his hopes for the new Left party, the potential for coalition building, and his determination to overcome sectarianism on the way to forging a truly democratic form of modern socialism.
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New Corbyn Party renews challenge to neoliberal establishment consensus
Jeremy Corbyn’s strength lies in his ability to inspire a movement, but translating this into a viable party requires overcoming the same hegemonic forces that destroyed his Labour leadership.
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New left party’s polling a wake-up call for Labour
IF KEIR STARMER’S stumbling government needed a further wake-up call, the latest opinion poll should provide it.
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We are all Palestine Action
To equate a spray can of paint with a suicide bomb isn’t just absurd, it is grotesque.
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The Empire never died
The British Empire is still with us, in the UK’s island outposts and military bases, in the plunder of other countries’ resources, and in UK officials’ imperial mindset.
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Having sold out on every working-class promise, Starmer finally stoops to migrant-bashing
The most productive approach would be to stand up for what most Reform UK voters want and which they share with most people in our country—public ownership, higher taxes on the rich and an end to the privileges of the plutocracy.
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“Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic by Ilan Pappé” – Review
The pro-Palestine movement has never been more prominent in the West, but Western governments and corporations are still committed to the success of the Zionist project.
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The Great Gatsby 100 years later
The relevance of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most famous work today on its centennial.
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Morgan McSweeney’s ‘plot without precedent in Labour history’
A new book chronicles how Labour strategist Morgan McSweeney used ‘any means necessary’ to destroy Corbyn as leader and install Starmer.
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We are the resistance
The UK Supreme Court does not change the reality of trans and non-binary people.
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Absolute car crash
As a trade tariff war erupts across the globe Kevin Crane examines the prospects and challenges of the UK and European vehicle manufacturing sector.
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The AUKUS chickens are coming home to roost, already
In its response to AUKUS with its objective of militarily confronting China in the South China Sea, we should not be surprised by Chinese naval vessels sailing around Australia to pick up some intelligence or at least showing us their growing naval power.
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UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance
Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. This manufactured crisis, however, is far from inevitable. The time has come to revitalise higher education funding in the UK by extending what Cornell legal scholars Robert Hockett and Saule Omarova call ‘the finance franchise’ to universities.
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Mauritius challenges UK over Chagos Islands deal
Negotiations have also been influenced by India, which supports Mauritius due to shared cultural and historical ties.
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Buying democracy: The corrupting influence of Elon Musk
The billionaire wants to insert the power of his money into British politics, but Reform can be crushed if we mount a campaign of real protest, unafraid to attack Labour, argues John Westmoreland.
