Israel continues to operate with impunity in what seems to be a brutal and protracted experiment, while much of the world looks on, says RAMZY BAROUD
Are there lessons from Italy for Britain's broken politics?
Italy's problems with the European Commission deserve close observation by any incoming left government, writes NICK WRIGHT
Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini responds to EU disdain by promoting his alliance with US rightwingers like Mike Pompeo
A new report by Amnesty International pulls no punches in highlighting the Labour government’s human rights violations of those on benefits, says Dr DYLAN MURPHY
With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum
By sticking together, working collectively and building the union, we can weather any uncertainty ahead, writes general secretary of Usdaw PADDY LILLIS
The announcement of a Women’s Justice Board should be cautiously welcomed, writes SABINA PRICE, but we need to see a recognition that our prison system is in crisis and disproportionately punishes some of the most vulnerable people in society
Cuba Solidarity Campaign secretary BERNARD REGAN says the inhuman blockade of Cuba not only continues, but the Donald Trump administration is ratcheting up aggression against both Havana and Latin America more widely
THE deep institutional and political crisis gripping our country introduces — for the parents of the new political generation — a sensation similar to that experienced by the veterans of the defeated Chartist movement who saw in the late 19th century socialist and trade union renaissance their youthful dreams given new life.
The socialist song “England Arise, the long, long night is over” gave one voice to this reawakening. In Wales and Scotland the same sentiments found a distinctive national expression as British imperial power began to feel the competition from its continental and North American rivals and the stirrings of colonial revolt.
Today, as then, the constant recomposition of capital continually transforms the world of work and the social and political forces that express its contradictions. This proceeds in secret, unseen, the changes barely noticed until a slow accretion of these contradictions burst forth.
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