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Letter to Biden says: ‘Let Cuba Live’

24th July 2021

Full-page letter in the New York Times calling on President Biden to lift the 243 unilateral coercive measures that were imposed on Cuba by Trump and to resume the opening up process.

The economics of the pandemic policy

23rd July 2021

The trade-off has never been between lives and ‘the economy’. It has always been a trade-off between lives and the opportunity to boost profits.

The government is attacking with racism on all fronts – Starmer is colluding in it

7th July 2021

The government is engaged in an all-round racist offensive, which is getting only a limited response primarily because the current Labour leadership is co-operating with it.

The climate emergency and political paralysis in the US

6th July 2021

The paralysis currently on display in the US is a grim warning to the rest of the Biden agenda. It also illustrates that bipartisanship is used as a weapon against the left to block all social progress.

Vote Steve Turner for General Secretary of Unite

5th July 2021

If Steve Turner does not win the left within the Labour Party and the TUC will suffer a significant defeat.

100 years of the Communist Party of China

2nd July 2021

With a handful of people founding the Chinese Communist Party 100 years ago, the Chinese people gained a leadership body that could deliver them from a struggle that dates back to 1839. Now, the CPC will play a decisive role in determining the fate not only of China but of the world.

Boris Johnson wants to rip up NI Protocol, undermining Good Friday Agreement – Keir Starmer is helping him

24th June 2021

Despite the Labour Party laying claim to the GFA as one of its greatest modern achievements, Keir Starmer and his front bench are acting in concert with the Tories and threatening to undermine both peace and progress in Ireland.

Summitry and the new cold war

23rd June 2021

Imperialism’s interest in overturning the rule of the CPC in China, under the euphemistic rubric of “security”, “democratic values” and “rules based order”, was codified in the week of summitry comprising the meetings of the G7, NATO and the Biden-Putin summit.

International movement against new cold war is growing

15th June 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden has not brought to an end the moves towards a new cold war against China. In response, a new international movement opposing this cold war is beginning to emerge across the world.