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The demonstration that took down East Germany On November 4, 1989, a cabal of East German creatives and intellectuals demanded democratic reform. The result was an enormous demonstration that catalysed the fall of the Berlin Wall. By November 1989, rumours had long been flying that change was inevitable in communist East Germany. Citizens were turning their backs in droves on the politically...

EU border policies have turned the sea into a refugee graveyard, civil migrant rescue fleet charges The EU’s border policies have turned the Mediterranean Sea into a refugee graveyard, NGOs charged today after photos emerged of some of the people who died in a recent shipwreck six miles off the coast of Lampedusa. The people pictured on the sea bed by...

The Liberal Democrats are profiling every voter in the country by rating their political preferences. Sky News can revealed how the LibDems seem be copying practices used Cambridge Analytica. The percentage ratings - there are at least 42 in total, although the identity of only 37 are known - estimate whether someone voted Leave or Remain in the 2016 EU referendum...

Remainers claim that Brexit will be an economic apocalypse. But it provides the opportunity for a radical break with neoliberalism. Nothing better reflects the muddled thinking of the mainstream European left than its stance on Brexit. Each week seems to produce a new chapter for the Brexit scare story: withdrawing from the EU will be an economic disaster for...

  Women born in 1950's or later now have to wait longer to claim their pensions in order to bring them into line with men. Annick Masselot, Roberta Guerrina and Bridgette McLellan explain how the UK implemented an EU directive requiring the sexes to be treated equally for social security purposes. They argue that although, on average, women are worse-off in old age and...

LABOUR should not be receiving taunts from government frontbenchers that the party is “too cowardly” to vote for a general election. It certainly should not be facing such mockery on the very day it winds up a conference that showcased the party’s huge size, ambitious programme for power and the passion and dedication of its activists. Jeremy Corbyn is absolutely right...

The EU commission a web of corruption Some of the candidates put forward to become the new European Commissioners are of concern due to potential conflicts of interest – from share ownership in fossil fuels and finance to overly close relationships with business – and corruption probes, while MEPs complain of a lack of a robust transparency process to properly...

High-flying bosses creamed off £47 MILLION in pay and perks in the years before travel firm collapsed - leaving 156,000 stranded From the Costas to Cuba: Thomas Cook passengers bed down in airports while the lucky few board planes home as Government's £100m Operation Matterhorn to rescue 156,000 stranded holidaymakers begins There are more than 1,000 repatriation flights planned, which will...

We need to ensure that Labour understands the socialist arguments against the EU if it is to negotiate any new deal credibly, argues LAURA SMITH MP When all the dust has settled, most expect Labour’s Brexit policy will end up as a commitment to negotiate an alternative deal with the EU and to then put that deal to the public...

Eddie Dempsey: In the past week, Owen Jones surprised me by making me the subject of a blog post in which he attempted to sketch a caricature of me as a peddler of nativist fantasies about a supposed ‘white working class’. This comes off the back of a series of slurs against me orchestrated by Clive Lewis, who compared me...