IAN LAVERY MP says an immediate focus on raising wages and reducing costs must be part of a strategy to show Labour can deliver for workers again
Dr Who the leftist
From their ecological critique of capitalism, their awareness of class issues, to their steadfast opposition to racism, Dr Who has been flying the red flag for decades, argues MATTHEW TRINDER
(From left to right) Tosin Cole, Mandip Gill, Jodie Whittaker and Bradley Walsh attending the Doctor Who premiere held at The Light Cinema at The Moor, Sheffield
Friedrich Merz’s call for a new Plaza Accord ignores how Washington’s 1985 currency ambush destroyed Japan without fixing US deficits — China, a sovereign socialist state with 1.4 billion consumers, cannot be bullied the same way, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
World Peace Council president PALLAB SENGUPTA assesses the challenges facing the international peace movement and sends greetings to the Liberation AGM
KIERA MARSHALL says there is a gulf between the privileged circles in which most politicians move and the lives of working-class youth in left-behind estates – and as a newly elected Senedd member she’s determined to do something about it
ANGUS REID and ANDREW JOHNSTONE report on an initiative that we must take this summer
At last weekend’s International Conference Against War, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER talks to the Palestinian physician and politician about the struggles ahead to achieve a truly free Palestine
“We have to not help her!” “We” is Jodie Whitaker’s Doctor Who and her companions. “Her” is none other than Rosa Parks, famous for taking a stand by refusing to stand and relinquish her seat to a white passenger on a bus as was required by law in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955.
This seemingly small act went on to inspire the civil rights movement in the US, which in turn eventually led to the end of racist segregation laws across the country.
The US has since had its first black president of course.
The time-travelling Doctor and her friends were present, but writer Malorie Blackman wanted to make it clear to the watching audience of over eight million people that the characters were not there to take away Parks agency.
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