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Mixed message from Nevada, but Sanders campaign still has the momentum

Sanders has been expanding his national vote, from around 30% (averaging the main polls) at the beginning of the year to 42% now. As he goes along he is sweeping thousands of young people into his campaign team.

Why the attacks on Bernie aren’t working

Confusion reigns in the Clinton camp after Bernie Sanders trounced Hillary in New Hampshire, 60% to 38%.

Sanders campaign over the first big hurdle

Bernie Sanders’ campaign for the US President is well and truly launched. The media are now treating him as a serious challenger after he held Hillary Clinton to a draw in Iowa yesterday.

As with Corbyn, the establishment underestimated Sanders

The US political establishment is a little less cocky now that Bernie Sanders is surging in the polls. The latest polls show him ahead in the New Hampshire primary race and the Iowa caucuses.

Police take a year to disclose secret search of activists’ home

The use of this provision against political activists does sound alarm bells.

Assessing the flag referendum

We now have a clear choice between a reasonably presentable Kyle Lockwood design and an out-of-date colonial flag, with its Union Jack in the corner and looking too much like Australia’s.

By-election victory shows Corbyn eminently “electable”

Instead of defending Corbyn some “left” papers like the New Statesman and the Guardian have echoed the right-wing line that Corbyn is too far left and will make Labour “unelectable”. Now they’ll have to eat their words

Why more bombing of Syria is not the answer

It’s almost a reflex reaction for Western powers to respond to a significant terrorist event with stepped-up air strikes, as France has done.

West Papua: Flag-raiser released after 11 years in jail

on December 1st, Filep Karma raised the Morning Star independence flag in front of a supportive crowd. He was quickly arrested by the Indonesian police, tried and sentenced to 15 years in jail – simply for raising a flag.