Opinion Can Labour remain the party of labour? On the 90th anniversary of the Independent Labour Party’s disaffiliation from the Labour Party, following the formation of the ‘national government,’ VINCE MILLS examines the significance of the trade union link
Features | Thursday 18th Aug 2022 A transfer of wealth from labour to capital unparalleled since the 1930s
Thursday 18th Aug 2022 The centre cannot hold With the Italian far right poised to make major gains in the coming elections, NICK WRIGHT highlights the gulf between a complacent middle class and the vast class of working people facing deep economic and social problems, both in Italy and in Britain too
Thursday 18th Aug 2022 Bernie Steer, last of the Pentonville Five Farewell to a hero of the Dockers’ Strike of 1972
Wednesday 17th Aug 2022 SCIENCE AND SOCIETY Glass half empty? How water privatisation in England is continuing to fail citizens Part of dealing with vast problems such as climate change and the new weather patterns it brings is making public decisions about the future, argue ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL
Wednesday 17th Aug 2022 Unhealed wounds of partition On the 75th anniversary of the Indian subcontinent’s independence and partition, MURAD QURESHI looks at how important decision-making was left to the largely incompetent Louis Mountbatten
Wednesday 17th Aug 2022 The Tories’ education culture wars The Conservatives have a long history of encouraging division in schooling – but the Labour government of 1964 introduced a new comprehensive system, sweeping away the grammar/secondary modern divide. KEITH FLETT takes a look
Tuesday 16th Aug 2022 ‘Put to death’: Canada’s euthanasia laws devaluing disabled people’s lives Human rights experts argue safeguards are inadequate and warn of cases where people seek to die because they don’t get enough support to live. MARIA CHENG reports
Tuesday 16th Aug 2022 The US empire’s scramble out of Afghanistan As Saigon marked the end of US geostrategic ambitions in Indochina, so Kabul marked the end of the same in central Asia. JOHN WIGHT reflects on Washington’s undignified Afghan exit, one year on
Tuesday 16th Aug 2022 The peace movement is needed more than ever As the EU becomes increasingly militaristic, ARTHUR WEST highlights the importance of voices for peace and analysis of how we can bring conflicts to an end
Monday 15th Aug 2022 Promises of the past, predicaments of the present: reflections on 75th anniversary of India’s independence The great irony of Modi’s campaign to appropriate our independence celebrations is that his right-wing Hindutva politics had nothing to do with the actual struggle against colonialism — progressives must reclaim our heritage, argues BHABANI SHANKAR NAYAK
Sunday 14th Aug 2022 Concepts of the enemy and a missionary zeal Both hot and cold wars require the support or acceptance of a majority of the populations in the respective societies — and the best way to achieve this is by the creation of an enemy that threatens ‘our’ way of life, writes DR GABRIELE LINDNER
