Robinson successfully defended his school from closure, fought for the unification of the teaching unions, mentored future trade union leaders and transformed teaching at the Marx Memorial Library, writes JOHN FOSTER
Welcoming ceasefire, Sudanese left calls for involvement of civil society and regional institutions
The Sudanese Communist Party has welcomed the ceasefire between the army and the Rapid Support Forces but has warned against monopolisation of the peace process by US and Saudi Arabia peacekeepers, reports PAVAN KULKARNI
HUMANITARIAN EFFORT: Sudanese Ayoub Abu Faterma, head of an NGO organisation, receives tons of relief supplies from the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre at Port Sudan airport.
A judge in a German court ruled that the ban activity imposed on renowned Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah was unlawful, reports LEON WYSTRYCHOWSKI
At the very moment Britain faces poverty, housing and climate crises requiring radical solutions, the liberal press promotes ideologically narrow books while marginalising authors who offer the most accurate understanding of change, writes IAN SINCLAIR
From Gaza protest bans to proscribing Palestine Action, political elites are showing a crisis of confidence as they abandon Roy Jenkins’s apologetic approach for Suella Braverman’s aggressive ‘hate march’ rhetoric, writes PAUL DONOVAN
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Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
The summer of 1950 saw Labour abandon further nationalisation while escalating Korean War spending from £2.3m to £4.7m, as the government meekly accepted capitalism’s licence and became Washington’s yes-man, writes JOHN ELLISON
HEAVY shelling in the Sudanese capital Khartoum and its sister cities of Khartoum Bahri (North) and Omdurman continued on the morning of Monday May 22, hours before a seven-day ceasefire was scheduled to begin at 9.45pm local time.
The “Agreement on a Short-Term Ceasefire and Humanitarian Arrangements” was signed on May 20 by the envoys of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) — former allies and partners-in-coup who have been fighting each other since April 15.
By then, the death toll of civilians caught in the crossfire had climbed to 850, while nearly 4,000 others were injured, said the Sudanese Doctors Union (SDU), stressing that these figures do not include casualties among fighters.
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Spain is seeking Nato protection for Melilla, where the massacre occurred, and Ceuta, its other colonial enclave on the north African coast. The Nato summit declared irregular migration from Africa to be a threat to the ‘state security’ of its members, reports PAVAN KULKARNI
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