Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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Projecting the scale of human catastrophe in Gaza
Researchers have used techniques from epidemiology to estimate possible deaths in Gaza under different scenarios as the genocide continues, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
A mass grave in Gaza
Over 30 years since apartheid was abolished, nasty anti-migrant rhetoric sweeps the corporate media. The Commnunist Party is ready to fight back, says ROGER McKENZIE
Over 100,000 people are expected on Brussels’s streets today. Ben Chacko speaks to Belgian Workers Party’s PETER MERTENS on wage and pensions attacks that have united the fightback
FRED BAYER says the cuts to the congress cycle could be disastrous for the Scottish trade union movement
Berlin’s Soviet war memorials are becoming the latest front in a political struggle to ‘de-Sovietise’ German history. NICO POPP reports
Western Marxism is a particular version of Marxist theory developed in – and acceptable to – the capitalist nations of Europe and North America and largely divorced from political action, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
THE humanitarian impact of Israel’s attack on Gaza is difficult to comprehend. Not only the bombardment but the severe restriction of aid into Gaza has killed tens of thousands of people.
Most awfully, these factors often combine, as on February 29. A crowd of desperate Palestinian civilians had gathered to wait for an aid convoy delivering bags of flour when Israeli troops fired into the crowd for a reported hour and a half. At least 118 civilians died in the “Flour Massacre,” as the event has been dubbed, with hundreds more injured.
As Al-Jazeera reported, though there is dispute over what led the Israeli forces to fire, the basic facts are clear: “Israeli forces fired indiscriminately into the crowd which killed dozens of people and led to a stampede in which more people died.”
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The catastrophe unfolding in Gaza – where Palestinians are freezing to death in tents – is not a natural disaster but a calculated outcome of Israel’s ongoing blockade, aid restrictions and continued violence, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
For those in the West, hunger is often just the familiar feeling of a growling stomach between meals — in Gaza, it has become a strategic weapon of slow, systematic and deadly destruction, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
