As tens of thousands return to the streets for the first national Palestine march of 2026, this movement refuses to be sidelined or silenced, says PETER LEARY
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The man who tried to warn the world about Auschwitz
A remarkable book tells the story of the first Jews to escape from the now-infamous Nazi death camp – but at that time most Jews of Europe had no idea of the horrors taking place behind the barbed wire, explains MARY DAVIS
BARBARITY: ‘Selection’ of Hungarian Jews on the ramp at Auschwitz-Il-Birkenau in German-occupied Poland, May/June 1944, during the final phase of the Holocaust; and (right) a watchtower at Auschwitz I camp
If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used
One of Canada’s most revered politicians is a native of Falkirk but is relatively unknown in his original homeland. KENNY MacASKILL tells his story
Labour prospects in May elections may be irrevocably damaged by Birmingham Council’s costly refusal to settle the year-long dispute, warns STEVE WRIGHT
HENRY FOWLER and ROB POOLE explain the significance of today’s Megapicket
ORDINARY PEOPLE is the theme and title chosen by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust for the commemoration of HMD 2023.
In the trust’s words: “Genocide is facilitated by ordinary people. Ordinary people turn a blind eye, believe propaganda, join murderous regimes. And those who are persecuted, oppressed and murdered in genocide aren’t persecuted because of crimes they’ve committed — they are persecuted simply because they are ordinary people who belong to a particular group.”
But what this statement leaves out is the victims. These too were ordinary people — millions of them, including six million Jews.
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Such betrayals to the authorities are strikingly at odds with the history of Jewish persecution, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER