Durham Miners’ Association chair STEPHEN GUY speaks to Ben Chacko about the Reform threat, what’s needed from Labour and why the Big Meeting will never lose its politics
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The demand for the end of human rights abuses unites the Iranian people
On the occasion of United Nations Human Rights Day, the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran continues to be a desperate one for anyone opposed to the regime. JANE GREEN reports
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi talks with patients and their families who have been demonstrating for the last four days outside the parliament demanding help with treatment and medicine for spinal muscular atrophy patients
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Andy Burnham’s message of hope will defeat Reform if Labour delivers the New Deal for Working People in full, says JOANNE THOMAS
General Federation of Trade Unions president and bakers’ union general secretary, SARAH WOOLLEY, guides us through the GFTU’s Summer School happening this week at Quorn Grange Hotel
The government’s latest asylum proposals abandon labour movement values and fuel division by aping Reform UK, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
Can Andy Burnham’s programme deliver a productive economy – or merely a softer version of capitalism, asks VINCE MILLS
IAN LAVERY MP warns that decades of neoliberal policies have left former industrial communities behind — but a renewed Labour commitment to working people could change the political landscape
HUMAN rights abuses in Iran continue to be an issue for young people, women, trade unionists, ethnic and religious minorities, and the political opposition.
The regime does not see the judiciary as being independent from the ruling theocracy in the country.
The Islamic Republic’s judicial system criminalises dissent and even imprisons lawyers for doing their job.
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The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) welcomes demonstrations across Iran, which have put pressure upon the theocratic dictatorship, but warns against intervention by the United States to force Iran in a particular direction
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The Islamic Republic is attempting to deflect from its own failures with a scapegoating campaign against vulnerable and impoverished migrants, writes JAMSHID AHMADI