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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Get the vulture capitalists out of social care
JON TRICKETT says the government's social care solutions punish the poorest
'We cannot tackle the social care crisis until care is taken out of profit-making hands'
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
WHEN Boris Johnson became Prime Minister in July 2019, he stood on the steps of Downing Street and announced that he had prepared a plan to “fix the social care crisis once and for all.”
After waiting 775 days we are finally about to see it. Though it is not what many had hoped for, least of all Conservative Party MPs. Tory backbenchers are in uproar over reports that the Prime Minister plans to raise national insurance to pay for increased funding for social care.
This would clearly break the Conservative Party’s 2019 manifesto commitment not to raise taxes. That is the pledge every Tory election candidate made to the British people. Now many of them are worried about the consequences of Boris’s betrayal.
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