The basis for 20th-century social democracy in Britain is gone, argues ANDREW MURRAY – but there are measures a Burnham government could take that would break with neoliberalism
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A new era of crisis
Amid climate change, economic meltdown, worsening living standards and the growing threat of world war, the radical left must draw its own political horizon, combined with a popular sense of urgency, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
Extinction Rebellion demonstrators in Whitehall, London, on the last day of the environmental action group's four days of action that they called ‘The Big One’, April 24, 2023
TONY BURKE pays tribute to a dedicated trade unionist and true internationalist who helped organise workers from Britain to Bangladesh
NASUWT leader MATT WRACK says schools are crying out for serious investment — and there are other immediate changes a new prime minister could and should enact
Keir Starmer’s resignation speech seemed to be coming from a different universe, or maybe it was just a fanfaronade of falsehoods, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Starmer will be judged on his record, but it would be wrong to view him in isolation from the crisis of the British political establishment, says the COMMUNIST PARTY in its official statement on the PM’s resignation
Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela, while Britain continues its colonial theft of gold, writes MATT WILLGRESS
THE next five years are almost certain to be the hottest period recorded.
The World Meteorological Organisation reported last week that its modelling, taking account of the shift from the El Nina to El Nino warming cycle in the Pacific, is of a 66 per cent chance of global temperatures rising to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels at some point by 2027.
That doesn’t necessarily mean that that threshold, which was set at the Paris climate conference in 2015, will be permanently breached. But it becomes more likely every month.
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