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
Peace: the people’s priority in Iran
After the Gaza genocide and unleashing chaos in Syria, the US and Israel prepare to target Tehran next, leaving the Iranian people caught between foreign intervention and continued theocratic oppression, writes GAWAIN LITTLE
BRUTE FORCE: An Israeli war plane at Tel Nof air base prepares for strikes on Iran
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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
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the legal case behind this weekend’s Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival and the lessons for today
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
THE Middle East has long been a battleground in which imperial powers have played out their power games by creating, enhancing and exploiting regional tensions. However, the most recent plans of the US to “reshape” the region go back some 18 years to the speech made by then US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, in July 2006 when she stated that the US was seeking major change in the Middle East.
Under successive US presidents since then, the concept of a Greater Middle East has evolved. President Obama developed the US’s New Middle East Plan to reassert influence and bolster resource control in the region. Obama’s version of the plan resulted in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Iran in 2015 and a more nuanced approach to containing the perceived threat of Iran to the regional power balance.
Donald Trump took a more belligerent approach, tearing up the JCPOA in 2018, taking a clear position of supporting the objectives of Israel to be the region’s dominant military power and protector of US interests.
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