BEN CHACKO reports on fears at TUC Congress that the provisions in the legislation are liable to be watered down even further
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Labour should be speaking up for Palestine
By refusing to call for a ceasefire, Labour is losing credibility with countless voters as well as turning a blind eye to what may already amount to a genocide, warns HUGH LANNING
CHRIS HOOFE calls for support for GMB’s Potters’ Pledge campaign, aimed at making sure the historic pottery industry based in Stoke-on-Trent is supported over cheap, low-quality imports and counterfeits
Investing the £75 billion slated for defence spending on a green new deal, healthcare and education would create jobs and help communities far more than weapons spending, argues UCU general secretary JO GRADY
Speaking to the Morning Star’s Ceren Sagir, general secretary of the National Union of Journalists LAURA DAVISON outlines the threats to journalism from Palestine to Britain, and the unique challenges confronting the industry through the rise of AI
We must organise broad-based counterprotests and celebratory local community events to rebuild class consciousness and challenge the far-right’s divisive lies, writes KEVIN COURTNEY, ahead of this Saturday’s big demo in London
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE
I HAD never thought it so controversial to speak up for Palestine. You knew people would disagree, challenge — but not try to stop debate and the freedom of expression.
First, Israel sought to get the three letters BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) outlawed. It resulted in the government’s anti-boycott Bill — with Labour meekly toeing the line that, somehow, non-violent action such as BDS was discriminating against Israel, notwithstanding its continuous breaching of international law in its occupation and encouragement of settlements in Palestine.
Next, it was using the word apartheid in the same sentence as Israel — despite copious reports from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and others that Israel was now in breach of international law by committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians in the operation of its regime.
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HUGH LANNING reports on an initiative that will aim at counteracting the anti-Palestine narratives spoon-fed to Western governments and the mass media by Israel’s propaganda machine
Israel’s messianic settler regime has moved beyond military containment to mass ethnic cleansing, making any two-state solution based on differential rights impossible — we must support the Palestinian demand for decolonisation, writes HUGH LANNING
The mass movement supporting Palestine represents potential political power that the left must now embrace as central to its strategy, writes HUGH LANNING, ahead of this Saturday’s Socialism or Barbarism day school in London
