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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Crisis for the conservatives — but what can we do?
The Tory leadership turmoil can help the labour movement and class struggle, but history show this is not a given: the Labour Party looks unlikely to turn to the left, so it is our own activity in the unions that we must rely on, writes KEITH FLETT
Miners and trade unionists marching to Westminster during the miners strike in 1972 - described as the ‘peak year’ of labour
by socialist historian Ralph Darlington
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
THE resignation of Boris Johnson as Prime Minister and his likely eventual departure from Number 10 is a moment of crisis for the Tory Party. Post-1945 history shows that it’s a crisis they can overcome though.
The wooden image of Keir Starmer correctly calling for the Tories to go will hearten them. Perhaps the worst that could happen Tory-wise is for them to lose an election to be replaced by a similar Labour one.
In 1957 Anthony Eden resigned after the Suez Canal war which Britain lost. Eden claimed he was unwell. Labour did improve its poll ratings but Eden’s successor Harold Macmillan easily won the 1959 election.
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