The new Prime Minister must abandon decades of automatic support for US foreign policy, which makes us all less safe, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP
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The fusing of the pandemic, refugee and economic crises
Only working-class solidarity, compassion and organising for the common good will see us through them, writes KEVIN OVENDEN
Refugees wearing face masks on the edges of Lesbos's notorious Moria camp
Media Lens at 25: David Cromwell and David Edwards reflect on a quarter-century of media criticism, explaining why independent journalism is more important than ever
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The International Court of Justice has delivered its clearest ruling yet that the right to strike is protected under international law, write Professor TONIA NOVITZ, Professor KEITH EWING and Lord JOHN HENDY KC
Emergency phone alerts could help Britain respond to rising wildfire risk, but Australia’s experience suggests they work best as part of a broader strategy, write ELLIOT CONVERY-FISHER and KATE PARKINS
A champion motorcyclist, trade union organiser and communist, Clem Beckett went from Britain’s speedway tracks to the battlefields of Spain, where he gave his life resisting Franco’s forces at Jarama. GEOFF BOTTOMS pays tribute to this remarkable anti-fascist
HUMANITY faces a future of “socialism or barbarism,” wrote the Czech Marxist thinker Karl Kautsky in the period before the first world war.
That “war to end all wars” brought what was then the unimaginable suffering of the slaughter in the trenches. The great leaps in technology and engineering of advancing capitalism were turned to instruments of death.
It was followed by the global spread of a highly dangerous strain of influenza, incubated in the overcrowded, unsanitary military camps. It infected 27 per cent of the world’s population.
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