The crew of the Freedom Flotilla boat, Handala, warned Israel to obey international law but are now in captivity, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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'A thousand fires have been lit across the country – this is a grassroots revolt'
As ambulance workers join nurses in the biggest NHS strike in history, GMB leader GARY SMITH talks to Ben Chacko about what’s behind the current wave of industrial militancy
GMB leader Gary Smith
A Chilean court ruled that funds were illegally taken by the dictator to accumulate family wealth that is now disputed among his heirs, writes PABLO MERIGUET
DAVID HORSLEY remembers communist seaman Bill Bailey, the ‘Kid from Hoboken,’ whose heroics in tearing down a swastika flag from a ship’s mast inspired early anti-fascist resistance
Our Foreign Secretary now condemns Israel in the Commons, yet Britain still supplies weapons and intelligence for its bombing campaigns — as the horror reaches perhaps the final stage, action must finally replace words, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
I went to bed planning for university, but woke to bombs falling on Gaza, losing my home, best friend, and nearly my hand — yet I am unbroken, and still dream of writing to carry Palestinian voices worldwide, writes EMAN GHASSAN ABUZAYED
The shock suspension of socialist MPs and Diane Abbott’s re-suspension reveals a leadership intent on crushing internal debate — but MERCEDES VILLALBA MSP warns against surrendering party democracy without a fight
TODAY sees the biggest NHS strike in history as striking nurses are joined by paramedics, ambulance workers and call handlers organised in the Unite and GMB unions.
Ambulances queued up outside hospitals unable to hand over emergency patients have left the country in no doubt about the scale of the NHS crisis.
Last week Rishi Sunak was forced to announce £1 billion in funding for thousands of extra beds and hundreds more ambulances.
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