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Left Unity national secretary Kate Hudson pays tribute to Fidel Castro. Fidel Castro stood for the liberation of humanity: not only for his own country Cuba whose struggle for freedom from US imperialism he led and won alongside Che Guevara; but also for the peoples of the world fighting for self determination, freedom from colonialism […] Read more »

Last week Parliament passed The Investigatory Powers Act, voting in the most sweeping surveillance powers of any country in western Europe and even the USA.  It legalises extensive snooping and hacking by the security services and means that no one now has the right to communicate privately or securely. Read more »

With John McDonnell’s comments welcoming Brexit as ‘an enormous opportunity’ and Clive Lewis’s on resisting freedom of movement, Labour has finally collapsed completely before the UKIP/Tory bulldozer on Brexit. McDonnell indicated that Labour would not seek to delay Brexit, presumably irrespective of the terms being proposed by the government. Lewis, remarkably, appeared to suggest that […] Read more »

Phil Hearse on the Trump victory The shocking victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential elections is a major turning point that is part of, and will give new momentum to, a surge to the right in world politics. The international situation is dealt with below, but for starters we should note that there […] Read more »

By Tom O’Leary Following the Brexit vote here and the victory of Trump in the US Presidential election there has been much ill-informed discussion of the ‘left behind’, sometimes spuriously described as the white working class who have not benefitted from rising living standards, or even globalisation in general. Read more »

Walter Baier writes: Donald Trump, a relentless right-wing populist, outed as a sexist defender of rape culture, becoming the 45th president of the US proves that the rise of right radicalism is not confined to a number of states and regions and is not just a European issue but rather is the expression of a global […] Read more »

Principal Speaker Felicity Dowling looks at the conditions of the American people which led them to vote for Donald Trump. Read more »

The film of the 1930s is running in slow motion. Across Europe, and now in the United States with the Trump victory, far right, racist politics are winning significant levels of popular support from across the economic spectrum – with support from affluent whites being crucial to Trump’s victory.  Millions are now supporting right wing […] Read more »

Oliver New, Chair of Ealing Save Our NHS writes. Grass roots campaigns to defend services are springing up everywhere, as well as national organisations like Health Campaigns Together and Keep Our NHS Public, which both have excellent websites. Led by social criminal Jeremy Hunt, the May Government is seamlessly carrying on from the Cameron team […] Read more »

Steve Freeman reports on the march against library closures. On Saturday 5 November thousands marched from the British Library in central London to Trafalgar Square to protest against library closures, part of the fight to defend culture, education and the public right to have free access to these cultural resources. Read more »