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Gaza: what did you do in the war?
As the slaughter in Palestine continues and the solidarity movement’s calls for accountability and a shift in international policy grow, political leaders must realise they face a reckoning for their silence, writes HUGH LANNING
RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY: Thousands march for Palestine in London calling for a ceasefire, November 25 2023
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
“IT is exhausting living in a population where people don’t speak up if what they witness doesn’t directly threaten them.” So said the US painter and Aids activist David Wojnarowicz when Western governments were told that “silence = death” during that epidemic.
And just as the Western world was rightly charged with remaining silent during the Holocaust, Israel’s war on Gaza will haunt today’s generation of political leaders in Britain and across the globe.
They will be judged by what they did and didn’t do: failure to call for an immediate ceasefire, continuing to supply arms and supporting the industrial carnage in Gaza in the name of self-defence.
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