A new generation of right-wing politicians have shifted from promoting deregulation to championing anti-migrant politics warns SOLOMON HUGHES
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Colleges: centres of working-class confidence
As college workers return to picket lines across the country they’re fighting for more than just a decent wage, or even their jobs, writes MATT KERR
FIGHTING VANDALISM: College lecturers from across Scotland gather at a rally outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh after walking out, on Thursday, on strike action as a long-running dispute over pay and jobs
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
I WAS still at school when I heard the new prime minister, John Major, proclaim his ambition to create a “genuinely classless society.” Some at the time wondered of this was a softening of the Tory position — “at least he’s accepted there is such a thing as society,” they thought.
Much is made of the so-called Thatcher revolution that he inherited, but what came next was something just as pernicious.
A decade earlier, Michael Foot had once compared the actions to at best allow, and at worst positively encourage the collapse of British industry, by Margaret Thatcher and her very own Rasputin, Keith Joseph, to that of a failed conjurer who has smashed an audience member’s watch only to have “forgotten the rest of the trick.”
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