A new generation of right-wing politicians have shifted from promoting deregulation to championing anti-migrant politics warns SOLOMON HUGHES
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‘Hope is the fuel of progress’
If Tony Blair is the epitome of everything that went wrong with Labour, Corbyn is the symbol of everything that drew people originally to the party, argues RABBIL SIKDAR
by the Greater Manchester Workers’ and Tenants’ Association
The US relationship with Israel has evolved into a strategic liability, argues RAMZY BAROUD
A champion motorcyclist, trade union organiser and communist, Clem Beckett went from Britain’s speedway tracks to the battlefields of Spain, where he gave his life resisting Franco’s forces at Jarama. GEOFF BOTTOMS pays tribute to this remarkable anti-fascist
The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
Claiming to ease a fertiliser shortage, the Trump administration has suspended tariffs on Moroccan phosphate imports – deepening US support for the Morocco’s control over Sahrawi territory, writes LUKE ROTELLO
“HOPE is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself,” said Tony Benn. He, like many on the left, believed that social change came from social movements, the organisation of ordinary people, collectivising their energies and interests to fight for a society that provides a fairer representation of their needs and dreams.
Today it is the quote that comes to define the ideological splinters forming in Labour. Are they so afraid of failure that they are imprisoning themselves in neoliberal politics, rather than fighting it?
The crisis within Labour isn’t so much one about ideological dogma but, stripped to its bone, a collective psychological fear of trying to become more assertive in the fight against the Tories. The Labour Party has been battered by the media relentlessly, and as such, politicians now fear trying to challenge the status quo set by the Tories.
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