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By Michael Roberts This blog was originally published by Michael Roberts on Friday, 8 May 2026. The original article can be found here. ************** In the recentRead More

By Robin Jamieson Day after day desperate hungry people beholden to violent criminals are still risking and losing their lives boarding overloaded rubber dinghies with insufficient fuel,Read More

A civil servant’s May Day confession, by Alan Browne, a working stiff in a right-to-work state Look, I know we’re only a week past May Day ofRead More

By Michael Roberts US president Donald Trump travels to China to meet China’s President Xi Jinping on Wednesday 13 May. It will be the first time aRead More

Part III: Have lessons been learnt? A resounding no! In the final part of a three-part article, CAIN O’MAHONY, who has worked in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone,Read More

In this article RAY GOODSPEED looks at the first four issues of the paper, from 5-8 May. Part two will look at issues produced in the secondRead More

By Joe Langabeer A quote attributed to Mark Twain reads: “History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes”. Well, in this case, history is repeating itselfRead More

By John Pickard Continuing the theme of the centenary of the 1926 General Strike, here we look at a snapshot of the strike in southern Scotland andRead More

Town halls up and down the country are now going to be flooded with Reform UK councillors: a surge of racists, xenophobes, transphobes, homophobes, anti-trade union ThatcheritesRead More

By John Pickard M*A*S*H was a film, later turned into a popular TV series, that was broadcast from 1972 to 1983. It was based on a Mobile ArmyRead More