By Riccardo Chiari (from IL Manifesto, a left wing daily in Italy, translated and edited by Dave Kellaway)
Jennifer Debs discusses the case of the Zaragoza Six, a group of anti-fascist activists in Spain who were arrested and imprisoned on what they claim to be false charges after protesting against the far right Vox party in 2019.
Dave Kellaway reports on the controversy surrounding a historian’s attempt to give a minute’s monologue on the meaning of Italy’s National Liberation Day, April 25.
Ian Parker on the agreement between therapy organisations and the consequences of it being broken.
Prime Minister Sunak's latest welfare proposals, argues Dave Kellaway, scapegoat the sick and disabled for the failures of capitalism, continuing a disturbing trend of demonising society's most vulnerable while ignoring the systemic causes of ill health and poverty.
We seek revolutionary transformation to meet the compound crisis of ecological disaster, economic collapse, social decay, grotesque inequality, mass impoverishment, growing militarisation, and creeping authoritarianism.
Phil Hearse examines the rapidly shifting political landscape that the increasing likelihood of a Starmer-led government is bringing about.
Ian Parker is reading a new full account of Fanon’s short life and work.
