The return of ‘scientific’ racism

Far right biological determinism is creeping back on to campuses. Alistair Farrow looks at its horrible history and why we need to resist the pseudoscience of race

How we can push back against racism

The new rise of the right

Unions declare victory in Glasgow equal pay fight

Trade unions are claiming victory in the equal pay fight negotiations at Glasgow City Council.

Duckenfield’s ‘gross failure’ was substantial cause of Hillsborough deaths, court hears

The failings of David Duckenfield in relation to the 1989 Hillsborough football disaster represented a “gross failure,” a court has heard.

Brexit crisis should be shaped by action on the streets

Hillsborough, football, disaster, flowers

Hillsborough - trials of David Duckenfield and Graham Mackrell begin in Preston

Students organise to kick the racists off campuses

EU, Theresa May, EU council, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Brexit

Struggle can break paralysis on Brexit

Grenfell, Silent Walk, protest, demonstration, London, fire

Hundreds join Grenfell Silent Walk as safety work on blocks slows down

Determined Scottish lecturers strike over pay

Theresa May survives confidence vote, but her Brexit crisis continues

Theresa May’s government survived a no confidence motion on Wednesday night by the votes of 325 MPs to 306.

Theresa May’s deal defeated in record vote - now fight to get rid of the Tories

The shattering defeat for Theresa May’s Brexit deal on Tuesday has to mean the end for her as prime minister and lead to an immediate general election.

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Teachers’ strike puts pressure on Syriza and the Greek state

US school strikes are the best way to fight Trump

Making sense of Labour

Yellow Vests defy French state and stay on the streets

Revolt in Zimbabwe against austerity and dictatorship

Comment

Struggle can break paralysis on Brexit

A thin ray of light shone through the Brexit tangle last week. Two government defeats in the House of Commons marked the moment when Theresa May definitively lost control of the parliamentary process governing Britain’s departure from the European Union (EU).

Big food business sells veganism to mask its crimes

From October, when Christmas apparently begins, capitalists spend a fortune creating a bubble of unreality—worries can wait, cheese and Baileys have no calories.