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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We will not be part of a warped experiment
This new government of right-wing zealouts is determined to use Britain as a testing ground for extreme free-market policies, with us as the lab rats, warns JON TRICKETT
RMT strike placard reading We Refuse to be Poor Anymore at a rally in Glasgow on 26 August 2022
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
THE direction of this government has been made crystal clear by the new Chancellor.
In the House of Commons on Friday morning he announced a so-called “growth plan” that will turbo-charge the failed neoliberal experiment.
The new Chancellor set out his overall objective in the plan, stating that “the government must cut taxes, streamline the public sector and liberate the private sector.”
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