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JEREMY CORBYN today warns business chiefs that the Establishment is driving working people into the arms of the far right by clinging to a failed economic model.
The Labour leader is correct to point to the EU referendum result and the victory of Donald Trump in the United States as evidence of popular disgust at a status quo delivering insecurity and poverty for larger and larger numbers.
It would be simplistic, however, to see the two results as directly analogous. Trump’s triumph, with fewer votes than either his rival Hillary Clinton or the previous failed Republican candidate Mitt Romney, was a product of mass disengagement, with the number of US citizens who didn’t vote almost equalling the combined Republican and Democratic total.
BEN CHACKO says in different ways, the centenary of the General Strike and that of Fidel Castro’s birth point to priority tasks for the British left in the coming year
As the dollar falters and US power turns predatory, Britain and Europe must abandon transatlantic illusions and build a collectivist alternative before the system implodes, writes ALAN SIMPSON
In the run-up to the Communist Party congress in November ROB GRIFFITHS outlines a few ideas regarding its participation in the elections of May 2026
There is no doubt that Trump’s regime is a right-wing one, but the clash between the state apparatus and the national and local government is a good example of what any future left-wing formation will face here in Britain, writes NICK WRIGHT