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
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Johnson discovers ‘people we didn’t know exist’
The Prime Minister follows in the footsteps of George W Bush in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, writes KEITH FLETT
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
WHEN Henry Mayhew started the series of social investigations into the London working class in 1849 that was to become London Labour and the London Poor, he laid out a prospectus in the Morning Chronicle.
He wrote of investigating the “large and comparatively unknown body of people” that comprised the labouring poor who lived in slum housing, often in insanitary conditions with, at best, uncertain employment. He set a pattern that has emerged at times of crisis since.
When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, revealing a US government and president in George W Bush who was not only unprepared to deal with it but had reduced funding previously for measures that might have helped, the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Michael Brown said: “We’re seeing people that we didn’t know exist.”
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