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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Like every Tory attack before, the cost-of-living crisis is intentional
It was no accident when Thatcher gutted our national industries and powerful unions, nor was it when Cameron came for what remained of the welfare state in 2010 — this time however, we are fighting for survival, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
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
IT HAS NEVER been an aim of Tory governments to raise the living standards of the population. But this government is engaged in the third huge assault on the pay and incomes and services of ordinary people in living memory — and the most vicious of all.
The first of these was the programme of Margaret Thatcher, which completely re-ordered British society in the interests of big business and the rich. She also decimated the trade union movement and bragged that she had recreated the Labour Party in her own image. We are still living with the disastrous consequences of her policies.
The second big attack was launched by Cameron and Osborne, with the eager help of the Lib Dems in 2010. The economy and living standards have never properly recovered from the austerity policies they implemented. Of course, the stated aim then was to reduce the public-sector debt, which had been created by bailing out the banks and the economic damage they caused.
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