There was no need for John Ford’s 1939 film about the early days of Abraham Lincoln to establish a myth. That already existed ...
The political world changed on 5 November with the victory of the Trumpist authoritarians in the USA. Trump’s victory has set ...
Donald Trump may or may not be a fascist, but no serious observer doubts that his regime will be far-right, authoritarian and a mortal threat to democracy and workers’ rights. The argument about ...
Over Biden’s term, Trump has gained a relatively small number, but the Democrats have lost nearly ten million votes. Trump won thanks to the Democrats.
Socialists should be appalled by Trump’s re-election. Alan Woods, writing in the RCP’s The Communist (#18), welcomes it. He believes Trump’s victory was driven by working-class anger at capitalism.
The Second World War, how it’s remembered, and its modern resonances have occupied Steve McQueen’s mind of late. In 2024 he has brought out two films on the subject. Occupied City was an acclaimed ...
Artificial intelligence is now on its third thirty-year cycle of discovery, hype, disappointment and decline into an “AI winter” when it becomes unfashionable and unfinanceable. We are currently in ...
Drivers’ union Aslef claimed that a “groundbreaking” offer led it to suspend strikes on the London Underground planned for 7 and 12 November. The all-grades union RMT had already called off its ...
Some of the community meetings called for by the national online meeting on 7 November are starting to happen. Locally, there is one in Burlington next Wednesday, 20 November. Tomorrow [17 Nov] there ...
There is a problem of aspiration in the Government’s Employment Bill: a problem of aspiration within the organised labour movement. The lack of fight within our movement allows Labour to legislate for ...
While working people largely voted for Trump in the hope that he will improve the economy, Project 2025, the 900-page blueprint for a second Trump administration, will only worsen the economic ...
How many times have we heard (or read) the company saying that they're "at the limit of what they can afford", or that their offer is "full and final", only for further concessions to be won by ...