Green Party deputy leader MOTHIN ALI, who will speak at the International Anti-War Conference in London on June 20, says Britain needs to rethink its priorities – and its allies
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Yesterday’s instructions for overcoming fascism today
DAVID ROSENBERG explains how the far right can be defeated by learning the lessons of the past
Oswald Mosley supporters holding an open air May Day meeting in 1948
From Global Counsel to Arden, SOLOMON HUGHES finds firms linked to discredited politicians are still calling the shots in Britain
KEVIN COURTNEY explains why Reform UK is no friend to workers or trade unions, but just another party of the super-rich
EMMA DENT COAD explains why she is stepping down from the council after 20 years and how the legacy of the fire still haunts the area
While international attention focuses on ceasefire frameworks, Israel is openly advancing plans for a permanent expansion of its control over Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Researchers PAUL HOLDEN and JESSICA MURRAY are calling for whistleblowers and documentary records to uncover how Labour Together helped build the parliamentary majority that now dominates the Labour Party
LAST summer, Britain’s seemingly disparate far-right forces took anti-racist and anti-fascist campaigners by surprise by filling Whitehall with 15,000 people.
They were there to support Tommy Robinson, temporarily held in prison. The emotive themes he had articulated in sound bites in recent times had infiltrated the consciousness of those who took to the streets that day.
That single mobilisation eclipsed even the best-attended National Front rallies of the late 1970s, which rarely surpassed 3-4,000 but caused havoc in immigrant communities. You have to go back to the 1930s to find a similar number mobilised by the British far-right. In 1934, 15,000 people of all classes packed London’s Olympia Exhibition Centre in London. Most of them were avid followers of Oswald Mosley’s vision for Britain and members or supporters of his British Union of Fascists.
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