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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Millions across the globe protested – we spoke for the global majority
KATE HUDSON of CND explains how, 20 years ago, the anti-war movement coalesced and built unity against illegal war and intervention, a unity that is still just as needed today
Anti-war demonstrators make their way down Piccadilly in central London on their way to the rally in Hyde Park, February 15, 2003
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
THE war on Iraq was illegal, immoral and devastating. In the region of half a million people died. Many thousands more suffered from, and often died from, preventable diseases, from the impact of cluster bombs and from cancers caused by radiation poisoning from depleted uranium munitions.
That the British government took us into that war on the basis of a tissue of lies demonstrates the extraordinary moral bankruptcy of our political system.
President George W Bush attempted to use the tragedy of September 11 2001 to further US interests in the Middle East by imposing regime change on Iraq, and the craven Tony Blair backed him up, first with falsehoods, then with weapons and lives, telling us that Britain had to pay the “blood price” for our alliance with the US.
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