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Banners, brass bands and a century of struggle. This Saturday, Durham becomes the beating heart of the labour movement once again as the Miners’ Gala marks 100 years since the General Strike.

Trump’s Ankara bluster was for the cameras. The real story is NATO quietly locking in a war-fighting alliance aimed at China.

The Left Lane’s latest International news digest includes articles on the funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, US socialists’ election wins, Venezuela’s oil revenues, draconian prison sentences given to ICE protestors, Albania’s continuing Flamingo Revolution, the murder of an anti-corruption activist in Ecuador and Italy’s resistance to continuing EU aid to Ukraine.

Nigel Farage says he’s the underdog taking on a corrupt establishment, yet he’s spent two decades funded by tax exiles, crypto investors and a man convicted of wire fraud. Brian Green has a timely explainer on the money behind the myth.

As Farage tries to dodge scrutiny over his undeclared millions by playing the outsider, Clacton has the perfect chance to show him exactly where he belongs.