There have been penalties for those who looked the other way when Epstein was convicted of child sex offences and decided to maintain relationships with the financier — but not for the British ambassador to Washington, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES
It is time for sanctions to stop Israel’s war on Palestine
We need to demand real action from the British government as part of global pressure to force Israel to end its war on the Palestinian people, says RICHARD BURGON MP
Israel’s injustice against the Palestinian people is again intensifying. War on Gaza in recent days has killed at least 219 Palestinians including 63 children
Labour’s new Treasury unit will ‘challenge unnecessary regulation’ by forcing nominally independent bodies like Ofwat to bend to business demands — exactly what Iain Anderson’s corporate clients wanted, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
DR DYLAN MURPHY looks at a Big Brother Watch report which exposes the government as an enabler of DWP secret spying on benefit claimants
The EU faces a critical choice: will it remain in the shadow of an increasingly unreliable US ally, or will it forge its own path in a multilateral world where co-operation with China is essential, asks MARC VANDEPITTE as leaders meet for the EU-China Summit
A lot of discussion about how the left should currently organise – including debate on whether the Green Party is a useful vehicle for advance – runs the risk of refusing to engage with or learn from the reasons the left was defeated previously, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE
AS I write, Palestinians are embarking on a general strike against Israel’s current war on Gaza and the wider occupation, colonial settlements and human rights abuses that dominate the lives of Palestinian people.
Huge numbers of Palestinians both inside of the occupied territories as well as those living in Israel itself have joined the strike in a tremendous show of unity for their common goal of a Palestinian state and a life free of Israeli state oppression.
Palestine has the right to exist but it is a right that successive Israeli governments have made less and less feasible — both through the direct military assaults, as we are seeing on Gaza right now, but also through decades of land grabs, expulsions of people from their homes and military checkpoints that determine where Palestinians can and can’t move.
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