The crew of the Freedom Flotilla boat, Handala, warned Israel to obey international law but are now in captivity, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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Trashing democracy, trashing the NHS, trashing living standards and lives. We must stop the Tories
The government’s all-round attacks on every aspect of working class existence must be opposed on every front, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
People take part in a protest outside Downing Street in Westminster, London, calling on the Government to scrap the Nationalities and Borders Bill
A Chilean court ruled that funds were illegally taken by the dictator to accumulate family wealth that is now disputed among his heirs, writes PABLO MERIGUET
DAVID HORSLEY remembers communist seaman Bill Bailey, the ‘Kid from Hoboken,’ whose heroics in tearing down a swastika flag from a ship’s mast inspired early anti-fascist resistance
Our Foreign Secretary now condemns Israel in the Commons, yet Britain still supplies weapons and intelligence for its bombing campaigns — as the horror reaches perhaps the final stage, action must finally replace words, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
I went to bed planning for university, but woke to bombs falling on Gaza, losing my home, best friend, and nearly my hand — yet I am unbroken, and still dream of writing to carry Palestinian voices worldwide, writes EMAN GHASSAN ABUZAYED
The shock suspension of socialist MPs and Diane Abbott’s re-suspension reveals a leadership intent on crushing internal debate — but MERCEDES VILLALBA MSP warns against surrendering party democracy without a fight
BORIS JOHNSON is possibly the worst, most damaging prime minister of the modern era and the mounting scandals could yet force him from office.
There is even a (unfortunately, much smaller) possibility that it could do in this government as a whole.
Whatever the immediate outcome, and however it unfolds, the overwhelming majority of society has a strong interest in seeing them all gone as soon as possible.
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