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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Iran: pressure mounts from outside and within
As tensions rise in the Middle East, the role of Iran in the region’s political balance becomes ever more significant. STEVE BISHOP assesses the current situation
EMPTY POSTURE: Children accost Donald Trump in effigy during the annual Quds Day march against Israel in Tehran
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
IN HIS first term as US president, Donald Trump tore up the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which had been agreed by Barack Obama in 2015, primarily to constrain Iran’s uranium enrichment programme in exchange for some sanctions relief.
For Trump, this was simply a case of Obama being “soft” on Iran, and from 2018 a policy of “maximum pressure” was adopted towards Iran, with any compromise or negotiation off the table.
The Biden administration did not fundamentally change this approach, and to all intents and purposes, foreign policy under Biden was a continuation of that under Trump in relation to Iran.
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