There’s no return to the ‘old normal’ Despite what some commentators might contend, Biden’s election represents no return to the liberal Third Way consensus, writes KEVIN OVENDEN
Features | Thursday 21st Jan 2021 FROSTY’S RAMBLINGS From Whitehall, Kent’s lorry parks to Santiago de Compostela
Tuesday 19th Jan 2021 Steven Donziger: corporate political prisoner CHLOE KOFFMAN tells the story of a US lawyer trapped under house arrest and awaiting trial after pursuing environmental justice for indigenous Ecuadorians whose land and water was poisoned by an oil giant multinational
Wednesday 20th Jan 2021 VOICES OF SCOTLAND Socialism can reverse Scottish Labour’s decline JOHN SINGER and ENAS MAGZOUB argue that putting forward working-class candidates committed to a national care service, rent controls and bringing key services under public ownership is the best way to rebuild the party
Tuesday 19th Jan 2021 Yemen — humanitarian crisis deepens It is now almost six years since the Saudi Arabia-led coalition began bombing Yemen — STEVE BISHOP highlights the current issues and required action
Monday 18th Jan 2021 Free school meals: vouchers are not good enough Those in need deserve straight cash to feed their kids, without judgement and without strings attached, says MOLLIE BROWN
Monday 18th Jan 2021 2021: An arresting start Trump was an enemy of the security services from day one — did they hasten his decline by allowing January 6 to happen? ZOLTAN ZIGEDY reports on the next phase of US politics with the Democrats firmly in control
Monday 18th Jan 2021 Were the Capitol riots really a new milestone in ‘fascism?’ MARYAM PASHALI analyses the historic trends behind the storming of the US Capitol and argues that labels of ‘fascism’ provide an easy scapegoat for the leading capitalist ‘democracy’ and its centuries of fostering white supremacy
Saturday 16th Jan 2021 Shopworkers stake claim for £10 hourly minimum across the sector Usdaw’s Morrisons deal sets the benchmark for pay talks with major retailers and boosts its wider campaign for a New Deal, says industrial reporter DEREK KOTZ
Saturday 16th Jan 2021 Is Britain turning its back on asylum-seekers? BETHANY RIELLY reports on the latest immigration rules, which allow asylum-seekers to be kept in ‘indefinite limbo’ and have been branded by experts as ‘completely unworkable’ and ‘inhumane’
Saturday 16th Jan 2021 Donald Trump, Julian Assange, free speech and censorship: for a class perspective Ben Chacko addresses some of vital points notably absent from the present media discourse on censorship
Friday 15th Jan 2021 Jeremy Corbyn: ‘The rule of the few over the many rests on very shaky ground’ Former Labour leader to issue rallying cry for socialism at Peace and Justice Project launch this weekend
