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Challenging Liverpool cuts with a radical alternative budget AMID Liverpool City Council’s plans for over £56 million in spending cuts and another 4.99 per cent council tax rise (Liverpool Echo, February 22) the Liverpool Trade Union Council (LTUC) on Saturday ...

Challenging Liverpool cuts with a radical alternative budget - Liverpool Trades Council has unveiled a ‘People’s Budget’ to fight £56m cuts and council tax rises. DEAN YOUNG reports
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General Strike 100 – March overview General Strike 100 is a national partnership of museums, libraries, archives and local history groups to commemorate the 1926 General Strike. Search the interactive website here: generalstrike100.com....

General Strike 100 – March overview
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Remembering the first ever Labour PM anywhere ASK who was the first Scottish Labour prime minister and many will name the disgraced Ramsay Macdonald. But the first Scot to serve as a Labour prime minister was Andrew Fisher from Crosshouse, near K...

Remembering the first ever Labour PM anywhere - KENNY MacASKILL reminds us of the unprecedented political career of a Scottish miner’s militant son who stayed the course and true to his roots
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Smear, fear and the myth of ‘nowhere else to go’ THERE’S a long drive ahead tonight, but it’ll be worth it. At the other end of the road is Manchester and my daughter who upped sticks when the first opportunity arose — not that I blame her.Still, sh...

Labour’s by-election defeat tells a story Scotland has known since 2008. A party that assumes loyalty while offering little more than managed decline will eventually discover that voters always have somewhere else to turn, says MATT KERR
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Plaid Cymru works with workers and their unions, not around them MANY will remember the strike waves of 2023. Across Britain, hundreds of thousands of workers took co-ordinated industrial action on a scale not seen for decades.Teachers, nurses, ambulance staff, civ...

Plaid Cymru works with workers and their unions, not around them - LUKE FLETCHER outlines Plaid Cymru bold plans for wide-ranging policy consultations with trade unions in Wales
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An example that will last forevermore ON SATURDAY February 14 2026, in Stockton, in collaboration with our colleagues in Germany, Italy and Spain, and with the support of The Olive Branch pub in Stockton-on-Tees, we marked the anniversary...

An example that will last forevermore - TONY FOX reports from a commemoration of the legendary Battle of Jarama in which four Stockton-on-Tees volunteers fell
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Britain’s unstable political order AS WE celebrate the publication this week in 1848 of the Manifesto of the Communist Party, we can imagine that Peter Mandelson, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Morgan McSweeney are contemplating the li...

With our ruling class struggling to secure a new vehicle for power and the disintegration of the traditional party system, a volatile new chapter is opening, sharpened by war, austerity and electoral distortion, argues NICK WRIGHT
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The decapitation that failed: Venezuela after the abduction of Maduro THE kidnapping of a sitting head of state marks a grave escalation in US-Venezuela relations. By seizing Venezuela’s constitutional president, Washington signalled both its disregard for international...

Washington’s unprecedented capture of the Venezuelan president was meant to demonstrate US power — but instead it has galvanised the Bolivarian movement and exposed the limits of the regime change agenda, argue ROGER D HARRIS and JOHN PERRY
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Exposing the rot in Britain’s water industry THE Channel 4 drama Dirty Business lays out for all to see the disgraceful state of our waterways, courtesy of the privately run water companies.The drama charts the struggle of two men, Peter Hammond...

Exposing the rot in Britain’s water industry - Channel 4’s Dirty Business shows why private companies cannot be trusted with vital services like water, says PAUL DONOVAN
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Mandelson and New Labour: the end of the affair CHANNEL 4 aired a three-part documentary, The Tony Blair Story, in mid-February. It was a history of the present back to the 1980s, albeit other histories are available.One person, close to Blair, who...

Mandelson and New Labour: the end of the affair - KEITH FLETT highlights the inimical role of the strategist who helped shape Tony Blair’s ascent and whose political blueprint continues to echo in the era of Keir Starmer
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Codir warns against imperialist war and calls for solidarity with the people of Iran THE Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) reiterates its call for solidarity with the people of Iran and warns of the consequences of failure in current talks in Geneva between ...

Codir warns against imperialist war and calls for solidarity with the people of Iran
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India’s workers made industrial history. So where was the noise? THERE is an old trade union proverb, forged in the coalfields of Bengal and borrowed by every liberation movement since: the boss needs the worker, but the worker does not need the boss. On February 1...

India’s workers made industrial history. So where was the noise? - The biggest strike in global history is a template for our future. The silence tells you all you need to know, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
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What does generative AI mean for science? IN FEBRUARY 2026, a team of four theoretical physicists published a paper on the non-peer-reviewed repository site arxiv, along with a co-author Kevin Weil.Weil is a product manager at OpenAI and was ...

What does generative AI mean for science? - Does widespread and uncontrolled use of AI change our relationship with scientific meaning? Or with each other? ask ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
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Spain’s Popular Front at 90: The anti-fascist struggle that changed the world NINETY years ago, the people of Spain delivered a forceful rebuke to right-wing extremism and opened one of the most dramatic chapters in working-class history. The election victory on February 16 193...

Spain’s Popular Front at 90: The anti-fascist struggle that changed the world - CJ ATKINS commemorates one of the most dramatic moments in working-class history
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What lies in store for Scotland? IN THIS increasingly uncertain political landscape, many eyes are looking over the horizon to the May elections in Scotland, and of course to Wales and some English councils.Before the horizon appears...

What lies in store for Scotland? - Uninspiring politics, weak leaders and party infighting could leave Scottish voters out in the cold come May, warns LYNN HENDERSON
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The US is clear - it wants to make empire great again WELL at least they are honest about it! Colonialism is back but this time on steroids.The truth is, of course, that colonialism never disappeared. There was simply a change of costume — an only half-h...

The US is clear - it wants to make empire great again - Rubio's disturbing speech in Munich exposed the West's brutal plans — more imperialism, more colonialism, more white supremacy, says ROGER McKENZIE
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Drive to war aims to restore US global hegemony BRITISH prime minister Winston Churchill commissioned the development of “Operation Unthinkable” as early as May 1945. The British General Staff was instructed to devise a plan for an attack on the So...

Drive to war aims to restore US global hegemony - Marco Rubio views 1945 as a defeat for the West, wants to revise the post-war order, while German ministers lead the standing ovation. SEVIM DAGDELEN reports
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Israeli settler land grab intensifies ON JANUARY 27 at 11.30pm, about 150 soldiers and over 20 military vehicles arrived in Madama, an agricultural village with a population of around 2,300, located south of Nablus in the occupied West Ba...

Israeli settler land grab intensifies - JENNY KASSMAN documents the state-sponsored and ever more brutal and ruthless moves to ethnically cleanse the West Bank
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Labour’s water shake-up risks putting polluters before the public interest THERE is a strong possibility Labour’s plans for a new “single powerful regulator” for water will make life easier for polluting water companies and worse for customers and the environment.Since priva...

Ministers say scrapping Ofwat will toughen oversight of scandal-hit water firms. But merging environmental and economic regulation and openly courting private investors suggest the failures of privatisation are set to continue. SOLOMON HUGHES reports
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Milei fiddles while Argentina burns FOR WEEKS, some of the worst fires ever experienced have laid waste to large parts of Chubut, Rio Negro, Neuquen and La Pampa in Argentine Patagonia.A contributory factor to the intensity of the blaze...

Milei fiddles while Argentina burns - The president is steering Argentina toward ever-deeper dependence on US capital, while slashing budgets at home – with calamitous results for the environment and the economy. BERT SCHOUWENBURG reports
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How Hull’s women took on the trawler bosses – and won A GIANT cardboard cod toured the winter streets of Kingston Upon Hull. Written across it in blood-red paint were the words: “It’s not the fish you’re buying, it’s men’s lives.”The winter of 1968 was a...

After 58 fishermen were lost in the so-called ‘Triple Trawler Tragedy,’ four women led a grassroots revolt that forced the government to overhaul Britain’s deadly deep-sea fishing industry. MAT COWARD tells the story
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‘I doubled down and started my full fledged advocacy for Palestine’ ONCE the face of a brief resurgence in the US labour movement, the founder of the first Amazon union on US soil, Chris Smalls, has now turned his attention to Palestine.Back in 2022, when he and his c...

‘I doubled down and started my full fledged advocacy for Palestine’ - CHRISTOPHE DOMEC speaks to CHRIS SMALLS, who helped set up the Amazon Labor Union, on how weak leadership debilitates union activism and dilutes their purpose
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Arundhati Roy refuses silence: why artists must speak out on Gaza THE great Indian writer Arundhati Roy took the decision last week to withdraw from the Berlin International Film Festival.Roy decided to skip the screening of her recently restored 1989 film Which Ann...

Arundhati Roy refuses silence: why artists must speak out on Gaza - In times of genocide, art is not a refuge from politics but a weapon against injustice, says ROGER McKENZIE, highlighting three of his own favourite political truth-tellers
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China’s revolution: What relevance today? WITH China on course to become the world’s most advanced major power in the next decade or two, understanding the roots of its transformation is obviously a necessity.

In the fifth and final part of a series of articles, Storming the Heavens author JENNY CLEGG explains how the Communist Party of China’s approach demonstrates how Marxism, rooted in concrete conditions and mass participation, can shape history
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Rev Jesse L Jackson, tireless civil rights champion, dies aged 84 THE Rev Jesse L Jackson, a close ally and follower of the Rev Martin Luther King Jnr, who led the civil rights movement for decades after King was assassinated, has died at the age of 84. Doctors conf...

Rev Jesse L Jackson, tireless civil rights champion, dies aged 84 - John Wojcik pays tribute to a black US activist who spent six decades at the forefront of struggles for voting rights, economic justice and peace
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Over 100 Cuban artists call for international solidarity ON JANUARY 29, President Trump signed an executive order labeling Cuba an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to the US. The order imposes economic penalties on any country that attempts to deliver oil...

Amid the latest US attack on the island, over 100 Cuban artists, intellectuals, dancers, musicians, and writers have called on cultural workers across the world to stand in solidarity with Cuba against the blockade. A report by People’s Dispatch
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Keir today, gone tomorrow? Please stop trying to reboot this broken PM MEET the new Keir, same as the old Keir.The Labour Party is presently following the basic operating manual for malfunctioning machinery — switch it off, then switch it on again and see if that works.W...

Keir today, gone tomorrow? Please stop trying to reboot this broken PM - ANDREW MURRAY says switching the prime minister on and off again is no substitute for new political approach we need
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Regime cleavage: how the United States is splitting into two A JANUARY 2026 Gallup poll showed that 89 per cent of all Americans expect high levels of political conflict this year, as the country heads toward one of its most decisive midterm elections ever.

Regime cleavage: how the United States is splitting into two - The language of humiliation is a step towards a second civil war, argues RAMZY BAROUD
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Why tech innovation is central to China’s 15th Five-Year Plan AS BEIJING prepares to convene the annual “Two Sessions,” one document stands at the centre of national and global attention: China’s 15th Five-Year Plan.Set to be formally approved by the National Pe...

As Beijing gathers for its annual ‘Two Sessions,’ all eyes are on China’s technological blueprint that will steer the world’s second-largest economy forwards in the coming period, says ZHANG HE
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The red MP: Shapurji Saklatvala’s fight for workers and freedom “BY THE death of Saklatvala, the Indian people have lost their greatest and most sincere champion, the Communist Party, one of its most devoted and self sacrificing leaders, and his family a kindly, g...

Twice elected in Battersea, ‘Comrade Sak’ devoted his life to the twin causes of working-class struggle and Indian independence – a legacy now honoured 90 years after his death, write DAVID HORSLEY and JEANNE RATHBONE
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