Olive oil remains a vital foundation of food, agriculture and society, storing power in the bonds of solidarity. Though Palestinians are under attack, they continue to press forward write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT

THE life of Felicia Langer, who died this year, is a shining example of a Jewish Israeli who championed the cause of the Palestinian people.
Her own biography Fury and Hope (1993) is as much about the suffering of Palestinians under Israeli occupation as about her own life.
She wrote several books and numerous articles on the Palestinian experience under Israeli oppression. In them, she discusses the routine torture of detainees, violation of international law prohibiting deportation, as well as collective punishment.

JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America

JOHN GREEN is stirred by an ambitious art project that explores solidarity and the shared memory of occupation

JOHN GREEN applauds an excellent and accessible demonstration that the capitalist economy is the biggest threat to our existence

JOHN GREEN isn’t helped by the utopian fantasy of a New York Times bestseller that ignores class struggle and blames the so-called ’progressives’