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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No-one will rescue us from the far right ‘from above’ – solidarity and social struggle are what’s needed
Spanish fascists give nazi salutes in Barcelona this year
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
by Weyman Bennett and Maz’s family
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
MARINE LE PEN’S fascistic Rassemblement National pulled ahead of French President Emmanuel Macron’s liberal-centrist party earlier this month in polling for the European Parliament elections in May.
Macron’s response? He floated the idea of honouring second world war quisling Marshall Petain as a hero of the first world war, brushing aside the customary cordon sanitaire around the leader of the occupation Vichy regime in the 1940s.
Days apart, the liberal mayor of Warsaw moved to ban an annual far-right demonstration timed to usurp Poland’s independence day falling last Sunday.
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