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Capitalism and AI pose an existential threat to humanity - DYLAN MURPHY focuses on the big tech oligarchs’ war against workers and how AI and robotics could destroy 100 million US jobs by 2035
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Capitalism and AI pose an existential threat to humanity
THE US Senate has recently released a report warning that artificial intelligence coupled with advanced robotics may destroy 100 million jobs over the next decade.The report notes that this technologi...
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November 14, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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The legend of the loppers’ lock-in - MAT COWARD reminds us that the resilience of ordinary folk can turn the tables on the mighty and 'entitled'
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The legend of the loppers’ lock-in
“HAD it not been for him there would have been no Epping Forest,” said a trustee of Lopping Hall in 1925, urging that a memorial be raised to the Loughton Lopper.He wasn’t exaggerating: if you’re one ...
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November 14, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Another move to appease Trump? - A new report says the government’s purchase of US nuclear-armed aircraft prioritises transatlantic politics over military needs and ignored its own Strategic Defence Review, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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Another move to appease Trump?
WHEN the British government announced its intention last June to purchase 12 F-35A nuclear capable Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter aircraft from the US by 2033 and join Nato’s “dual capable aircraft...
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November 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Why I don’t trust Labour’s new-found anti-racism - SOLOMON HUGHES examines the shift in Labour rhetoric on racism and Reform UK – and what’s driving it
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Why I don’t trust Labour’s new-found anti-racism
WHAT is going on with Team Starmer’s new “robust” posture against Reform? How did we slide from Starmer echoing Enoch Powell in his “island of strangers” speech in May to Wes Streeting denouncing Refo...
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November 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Strikes led by women deserve universal support - ROGER McKENZIE calls for greater support from trade unionists and the general public for female workers involved in industrial disputes
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Strikes led by women deserve universal support
PHLEBOTOMISTS at Gloucestershire Hospitals have been on strike since March 17. As of this week, at more than 200 days, that makes it the longest strike in NHS history.Not that you would really know fr...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Priorities on the international front - KEVAN NELSON takes a look at the global issues of war, peace and imperialism that will be up for discussion among comrades this weekend
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Priorities on the international front
IN 1924, the 6th Congress of the Communist Party of Great Britain made “pledges of solidarity with the struggling colonial workers and promises the fullest possible assistance in the development of th...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Ecuador’s referendum: the latest front in Washington’s war on Latin America - LEE BROWN highlights the latest attempts to undo progressive reforms instated during the presidency of Rafael Correa
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Ecuador’s referendum: the latest front in Washington’s war on Latin America
WITH attention rightly focused on mounting US military threats against Venezuela, another significant development in neighbouring Ecuador has gone under the radar.Both are part of the same US project ...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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A putsch at the BBC? - Davie and Turness are two scalps for Trump, Farage and Johnson, writes STEPHEN ARNELL
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A putsch at the BBC?
“JESUS was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary, it’s them twisting it that ruined it for me” – John Lennon.I find echoes of Beatle John’s then controversial quote in my feelings towar...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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In defence of jobs and academic standards - JACK DAVIDSON explains the motivation behind the UCU strike action at the University of Sheffield
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In defence of jobs and academic standards
ON November 17, the university of Sheffield branch of the university and College Union (UCU) will commence 16 days of strike action.In recent years, this is unfortunately not an unusual occurrence. Si...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Sergio Requena-Rueda: remembering a much respected Chilean trade unionist and activist
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Sergio Requena-Rueda: remembering a much respected Chilean trade unionist and activist
COVENTRY trade unionists, socialists, friends and colleagues of Sergio Requena-Rueda were sorry to hear of his death in hospital after battling with cancer. He was with his wife Tina, and his two daug...
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November 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Perils and pitfalls ahead for Your Party - While all of good faith on the left should wish the new party well, ANDREW MURRAY pinpoints some of the major challenges it will need to grapple with as it approaches its founding conference later this month
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Perils and pitfalls ahead for Your Party
THERE is still a good story to be told about Your Party, the new socialist organisation launched by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana.YP is now as well known, alas, for its internal disputes as for its ...
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November 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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The right sense blood – they want to destroy the BBC - TIM LEZARD dissects the motives behind the apoplectic right-wing attack on the BBC
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The right sense blood – they want to destroy the BBC
THE BBC is so left-wing that since 2010 its biased reporting has resulted in the election of four successive Conservative governments, the most right-wing Labour administration this century and a far-...
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November 12, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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As the Paris climate agreement turns 10, it’s showing its age - Reaching co-operation is supposed to be the beginning, not the end, of global climate governance, argues LISA VANHALA
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As the Paris climate agreement turns 10, it’s showing its age
TEN years after the world agreed on an historic framework for climate action, the very features that made the Paris agreement possible are now holding it back. Designed to foster co-operation, it has ...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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What is causing the growing militarisation of imperialist countries? It is caused by a desire to bring about regime changes against governments that pose a threat to the hegemony of imperialism, writes PRABHAT PATNAIK
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What is causing the growing militarisation of imperialist countries?
IN A declaration at the Nato summit held at The Hague in June this year, all Nato countries agreed to increase the share of military expenditure in their gross domestic product to 5 per cent by 2035.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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WILL DRY speaks to three former members of the armed forces about the political hypocrisy surrounding Armistice Day, how war is a function of class society, and the far right’s use of militarism and nationalism to divide working people
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Communist veterans speak out on remembrance — honour the dead by fighting for peace
THIS past Sunday, like every November, we saw Britain’s ruling Establishment drape themselves in solemn ritual, with wreaths laid, heads bowed, poppies pinned.At the same time, fuelling the very wars ...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Trump threatens war on Africa’s most populous country - Nigeria’s presidential spokesman grovels to the West in response to Washington intimidation, writes PAVAN KULKARNI
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Trump threatens war on Africa’s most populous country
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has threatened to go “guns-a-blazing” into Africa’s most populous country, Nigeria, which he denigrated as a “disgraced country.”In a social media post on Saturday November 1...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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500 years since the peasants’ war - NICK MATTHEWS recalls how the ideals of socialism and the holding of goods in common have an older provenance than you might think
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500 years since the peasants’ war
BAD FRANKENHAUSEN is a spa town in the German state of Thuringia and is home to one of the most astonishing socialist works of art ever produced.An enormous panorama based upon Friedrich Engels’s 1850...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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It’s not just the Starmer regime: the workers of Britain have always faced legal affronts on their right to assemble and dissent, and the Labour Party especially has meddled with our freedoms from its earliest days, writes KEITH FLETT
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A brief history of attacks on the right to organise
THE 32nd march for Palestine in central London since October 2023 took place on October 11 2025 with over 500,000 people attending. The reaction of Labour ministers was that such marches must be curta...
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October 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Germany’s political duplicity is as much an affront to the Gazans as it is to over 81 per cent of UN member states who recognised Palestine - After NGOs and the EU, UN condemns Germany’s crackdown on Palestine Solidarity, writes LEON WYSTRYCHOWSKI
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Germany’s political duplicity is as much an affront to the Gazans as it is to over 81 per cent of UN member states who recognised Palestine
FOR nearly two years, Germany’s Palestine solidarity movement has been subjected to intense repression. Above all, the unrestrained brutality of Berlin police against pro-Palestinian demonstrations ha...
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October 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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The oldest colony, the newest war: Puerto Rico as a launchpad for war on Venezuela - To defend Puerto Rico’s right to peace is to defend Venezuela’s right to exist, argues MICHELLE ELLNER
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The oldest colony, the newest war: Puerto Rico as a launchpad for war on Venezuela
WHEN US President Donald Trump announced that the CIA had been authorised to conduct operations inside Venezuela, just as US drones struck another small boat off Venezuela’s coast, few people in the U...
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October 24, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Mobilising our movement to bring back hope - We are demanding action from our politicians to deliver justice, fairness and decency throughout our communities – join us, says ROZ FOYER
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Mobilising our movement to bring back hope
WHAT people are lacking throughout our communities is hope.Hope for their life chances. Hope for their job prospects. Hope that their wage packets will see a rise while their bills will fall.It’s a po...
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October 24, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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The unvanquished will - Despite the apocalyptic destruction RAMZY BAROUD points to Gaza’s triumph of spirit against the architecture of genocide
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The unvanquished will
FOR the last two years, my social media algorithm has been relentlessly dominated by Gaza, particularly by the voices of ordinary Gazans, displaying a blend of emotions that centres on two core princi...
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October 24, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Italian unions are mobilising against rearmament and for wages and investment – but left blunders still leave the ‘post-fascist’ Italian PM looking likely to keep her job, says NICK WRIGHT
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Despite huge strikes and protests for Palestine, Italy’s divided left leaves Meloni looking secure
SIGFIDO RANUCCI is the face of Italy’s most notable investigative television programme. Screened on the national network RAI, his weekly Report tackles corruption political and financial; exposes the ...
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October 23, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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A President for the people: Why Sinn Fein supports Catherine Connolly
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A President for the people: Why Sinn Fein supports Catherine Connolly
IRELAND is entering the final days of an extraordinary presidential election in which — for the first time in modern history — the left is co-operating strategically, something long discussed but neve...
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October 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Harvesting olives under the occupation: a day in the West Bank - URI WELTMANN reports on a day in the life of peace activists from Israel, travelling to help Palestinians in the West Bank harvest their olives under threat from settlers and soldiers
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Harvesting olives under the occupation: a day in the West Bank
IT IS the olive harvest season. Palestinian communities are preparing for it, as they have for generations. This is not only economically vital, but also a practice rooted in their history, culture, a...
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October 23, 2025 at 10:20 AM