What next for the Sahel region? While recognising that Africans must chart their own course for the future, we must not fall into the trap of believing that throwing the French and United States out of the region will mean the people will automatically benefit, cautions ROGER McKENZIE
Monday 13th May 2024 Fighting for mental health in Barnet Branch secretary of Barnet Unison JOHN BURGESS applauds the mental health social workers who today are beginning three weeks of strike action against low pay, unsafe workloads and poor retention
Saturday 11th May 2024 ‘Working in rail is a battle from day one’ RMT young members' committee chair SARAH CUNDY speaks to Ben Chacko about the challenges facing young transport workers, public campaigning and training a new generation of union reps
Saturday 11th May 2024 ‘We were staying out, ballot or no ballot’ In the first of two features, ex-miner PAUL KELLY shares his experiences as a 24-year-old striker in the miners’ strike against pit closures of 1984-5
Saturday 11th May 2024 Aw That On the degradation of civic vision While revisiting his old postie haunts of Harhill, MATT KERR is reminded that Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan did build, post-WWII, something that has stood the test of time. Very little else has, if we are honest
Saturday 11th May 2024 Notes From A Free Walker Silent spring? Spring has sprung in all its glory — but DAVE BANGS is disturbed by the absence of a crucial sound
Sunday 12th May 2024 Voluntary white separatism: is segregation returning to the southern US? A group of wealthy white residents in the black-majority Louisiana city of Baton Rouge have been permitted to split from the city in a move termed ‘neosegregationist’ — and they are not the first, writes NATALIA MARQUES
Friday 10th May 2024 Charlie Hutchison, an anti-fascist icon DAVID HORSLEY honours the black British communist who fought the fascists from Cable Street, to Spain, to the concentration camps of Nazi Germany
Friday 10th May 2024 Will the Palestinian resistance groups create a new political project? The first task of the resistance is to prevent the attack on Rafah and end the genocide. However, soon thereafter, the political malaise that has befallen the Palestinian people must be overcome, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
Friday 10th May 2024 The missing question: what does Gaza want? It is clear now beyond any doubt that Israel aims to destroy Gaza and annex the West Bank. As the Palestinian resistance has shown this is not possible, will the West start listening to the Palestinian people, asks RAMZY BAROUD