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Jeremy Corbyn

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By Crushing Its Own Members, Labour May Sign Its Own Death Warrant

The Labour Right hopes that giving power back to MPs will prevent any future shift to the Left. But Britain needs more radicalism, not less.

Adam Ramsay ·

Bolsonaro

Warnings of Trump-Like Insurrection Ahead of Bolsonaro Rallies in Brazil

"The people of Brazil have struggled for decades to secure democracy from military rule, Bolsonaro must not be permitted to rob them of it now."

Brett Wilkins ·

Stella Moris

Further Blow to Press Freedoms as US Wins Appeal in Effort to Extradite Julian Assange

"This disingenuous appeal should be dismissed by the court and President Biden should take the opportunity to drop these politically motivated charges."

Brett Wilkins ·

Hiroshima

76 Years After Hiroshima Bombing, Fresh Call for End to All Nuclear Weapons

"Nuclear weapons are the ultimate human violence," said Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui. "If civil society decides to live without them, the door to a nuclear-weapon-free world will open wide."

Brett Wilkins ·

400+ Covid Survivors, Academics, and Advocacy Groups Push Boris Johnson to Back Vaccine Patent Waiver

"It is utterly shameful that the U.K. remains complicit in this crisis. The prime minister must now read the writing on the wall."

Jake Johnson ·

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh attends the wedding of Princess Eugenie of York to Jack Brooksbank at St. George's Chapel on October 12, 2018 in Windsor, England. (Photo: Alastair Grant - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Corporate Media Offers Wall-to-Wall Propaganda Every Day. We Only Notice When a Royal Dies

In normal times the propaganda is better masked, wrapped in the illusion of choice and variety.

Jonathan Cook ·

Amazon workers and community allies demonstrate during a protest organized by New York Communities for Change and Make the Road New York in front of the Jeff Bezos' Manhattan residence in New York on December 2, 2020. (Photo: Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images)

In Open Letter to Jeff Bezos, Over 400 Lawmakers From Around the World Join #MakeAmazonPay Campaign

"We stand ready to act in our respective legislatures to support the movement that is growing around the world to Make Amazon Pay."

Jessica Corbett ·

Then-Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn gives a speech on digitial infrastructure policy at an election campaign event in Lancaster, northwest England on November 15, 2019. (Photo: Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Images)

The UK Equalities Commission's Labour Antisemitism Report Is the Real 'Political Interference'

Neither Jewish leadership groups nor the corporate media have an interest in highlighting the embarrassing fact that the commission’s findings exposed their campaign against Corbyn as misinformation.

Jonathan Cook ·

Then-Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn gives a speech on digitial infrastructure policy at an election campaign event in Lancaster, northwest England on November 15, 2019.

'An Inspiration to Progressive Forces': Allies Stand in Solidarity With Jeremy Corbyn Following Labour Party Suspension

Corbyn was suspended following his reaction to a watchdog report on how the party handled allegations of anti-Semitism within its ranks.

Andrea Germanos ·

There has been the conversion of the commons into part of the structure of rent-seeking, and the US-designed intellectual property rights regime has come to dominate global capitalism. (Photo: Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

Class Politics Fit for the Times

The themes the Left should be coalescing around are dismantling rentier capitalism, offering a new income distribution system in which basic income divorced from the performance of labor is the anchor, and reviving all forms of commons and commoning.

Guy Standing ·

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