Green Party deputy leader MOTHIN ALI, who will speak at the International Anti-War Conference in London on June 20, says Britain needs to rethink its priorities – and its allies
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Back to a liberal future or forward to progress with Labour?
'Centrism' not only ignores but erases the history of injustice and class struggle that surrounds us, writes THOMAS LEWIS RUSSO
A Liberal poster from the 1920s
From Global Counsel to Arden, SOLOMON HUGHES finds firms linked to discredited politicians are still calling the shots in Britain
KEVIN COURTNEY explains why Reform UK is no friend to workers or trade unions, but just another party of the super-rich
EMMA DENT COAD explains why she is stepping down from the council after 20 years and how the legacy of the fire still haunts the area
While international attention focuses on ceasefire frameworks, Israel is openly advancing plans for a permanent expansion of its control over Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Researchers PAUL HOLDEN and JESSICA MURRAY are calling for whistleblowers and documentary records to uncover how Labour Together helped build the parliamentary majority that now dominates the Labour Party
EVER since Jeremy Corbyn was first elected as leader of the Labour Party, so-called “centrist” columnists and politicians in Scotland and across Britain have sneered at the very idea of an avowed socialist holding that position.
In 2018, a columnist in The Herald denounced Labour as the “fruitcake opposition” without any apparent need to justify this. Jo Swinson, the new Liberal Democrat leader, recently deployed the term “socialist” against Jeremy Corbyn as an insult and declared that the left-right divide is no longer relevant.
There is a persistent reflex from the centrist tendency to deny the legitimacy of the very expression of socialist thought. History, from this perfunctory glance, is an “Eraflix” platform with passing fads through the ages. The old tales of struggle and socialism are so passe when the Lib Dems have a flashy new drama to sell.
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