A new generation of right-wing politicians have shifted from promoting deregulation to championing anti-migrant politics warns SOLOMON HUGHES
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Labour must draw a line in the sand over coalition plans for our postal service, writes Billy Hayes.
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The US relationship with Israel has evolved into a strategic liability, argues RAMZY BAROUD
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
The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
Claiming to ease a fertiliser shortage, the Trump administration has suspended tariffs on Moroccan phosphate imports – deepening US support for the Morocco’s control over Sahrawi territory, writes LUKE ROTELLO
Today the Labour Party conference will be discussing the core of its economic policy in the sessions on "work and business" and "stability and prosperity."
This will be an opportunity for the party to debate an alternative to austerity, wage and benefit cuts, and privatisation.
Instead of a weak and jobless recovery, Labour could be demonstrating how a government-led investment programme would create a jobs and wages-led expansion of the economy.
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