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
How the YCL fought apartheid
Luke Tuchscherer meets STEVE MARSLING, one of the 'London recruits' who faced torture and prison on clandestine missions to fight the racist dictatorship in South Africa
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
A CHANCE meeting in a London pub led to a young man embarking on a secret mission to disseminate African National Congress (ANC) materials in apartheid-era South Africa.
The London Recruits is an upcoming film telling the story of volunteers who went to the country in the early 1970s to set off “leaflet bombs” letting the oppressed black population know the ANC was still functioning.
A 19-year-old Steve Marsling wandered into the Hanover Arms on Kennington Park Road, where coincidentally the Young Communist League (YCL) was hosting a folk night. Despite hating folk music, Marsling stuck around to chat to the members, who invited him to a meeting in Brixton.
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