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Policy planks for a Labour victory on 8 June
Labour has moved quickly to get into top gear for the General Election on June 8th. With the initial challenge of poor polls, together...
Trump targets US workers and immigrants
As global capitalism recedes Don Flynn finds immigrants are left exposed and vulnerable
A report from the Rust-Belt
From Ohio, Chris Athanasiadis reports on Trump’s Faux Revolution
How did Donald J. Trump become elected President of the ‘world’s greatest democracy?’ Some of you...
Spectre of the far right in Europe
Claude Moraes surveys the far right threat in Europe post-Brexit and Trump
Much is being said and written about the threat of the far-right in...
Build, build, build
Peter Kenyon assesses a spirited effort to resurrect public sector home building through a review of fellow Chartist Duncan Bowie's new book
Radical solutions to the Housing...
Crisis – what crisis?
Jacky Davis calls out Tory PM Theresa May, busying herself with Brexit, for the latest NHS crisis
The NHS is back in the headlines once...
‘New-antisemitism’ – an opportunity for Palestinian advocacy?
Salma Karmi-Ayyoub argues that the current debate has opened up space to restate the case for a secular single state solution
Tories renege on workers’ voice
Teresa May promised workers on company boards in her acceptance speech. The back-track wasn't long in coming
We have heard a lot about the Prime Minister’s...
Greenwatch on Trump
Dave Toke on a climate change denier
The election of Donald Trump probably means that, one way or another, the USA will pull out of the...
Going Vertical on rail
Paul Salveson's Points and Crossings in 284
There are signs that Chris Grayling, the new Transport Secretary, is flexing his political muscles and moving away...