Longtime Brazilian industrial union leader and political activist faces a two-year prison sentence for speech in defence of Palestinian liberation By PSTU – Brazil The trajectory of José Maria de Almeida, Zé Maria, is intertwined with the recent history of the Brazilian workers’ movement. Starting as a metalworker, he began his political activism during the […]
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Build a new workers party Keir Starmer became the British prime minister on 6 July after the Labour party won a landslide election with 411 seats that decisively swept the Conservatives out of power, as their vote fragmented. Labour only won 33.7% of the vote, John Curtice, a prominent polling expert, said the result was […]
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From Bill Hunter archives With a general election looming the need for change, as with the 1997 general election against the hated Tory government, remains widespread today. There is a growing desire for a workers’ alternative to Labour, as Starmer shifts Labour further to the right creating a party barely distinguishable from the Tories. An […]
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