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Issue 229 June 2019
Bernie Sanders and the road to a mass workers’
party
Bernie Sanders’ 2016 bid for
the presidency shook up US politics. Attracting hundreds of thousands of
people around a radical programme, it showed the potential for a
working-class-based alternative to the two main parties. TONY SAUNOIS
reviews an account of the campaign, drawing the lessons for the 2020
presidential contest now under way.
Editorial: warning lights flashing for
Corbynism
The promise of the Corbyn
insurgency that began in 2015 is in danger, momentum has stalled. The
results of the local elections - and to the European parliament after we
go to press, with Labour set to be outpolled by Nigel Farage’s Brexit
Party - are a serious warning. By not completing the insurgency set in
motion in 2015 and transforming Labour ideologically and
organisationally into a mass socialist workers’ party, a vacuum remains
which can be filled by other forces dangerous to the working class.
US-China trade war
Relations between the two
major powers are increasingly strained, with the current standoff on
tariffs threatening to escalate into an all-out trade war. That, in
turn, could devastate the still sluggish global economy. As ROBIN CLAPP
explains, this is part of the new world disorder of increased
instability and confrontation.
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A setback for the left
Scottish independence
Announce and delay
Global warming
A history of capitalist failure
Genetics
Controversial issues on how far DNA affects our lives, explored by
Judy Beishon
Protect and survive
Cold war exhibition
Jewish radicals
A history
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