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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Though cowards flinch
The Red Flag still flies from the Clyde to the Mersey, and whatever the current leaders of the Labour Party say or do, power rests with us, the working class, and our ability to say no to the corruption of the rich, writes MATT KERR
PRINCIPLED: General secretary of the Unite union Sharon Graham votes during a debate on cuts to the winter fuel allowance during the Labour Party conference in Liverpool on Wednesday
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
ON Wednesday afternoons, dozens of socialists and trade unionists came together to sing a parting hymn, the Red Flag; it is a moment I will treasure for as long as I draw breath.
Our voices carried that anthem into a cloudless sky across the — for once — sunlit moorlands over the Firth of Clyde, as we said goodbye to my father.
It was a gathering of the whole family, some bound by blood, most bound in the struggle of the labour and trade union movement over my dad’s five decades of activism.
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