The Gaza Tribunal is a vital step on the path to justice and accountability, writes RAMZY BAROUD
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The West still traps the global South in debt
For all the talk of the rise of the developing world and the decline of the West’s malignant power over it, we still haven’t seen a ‘can’t pay, won’t pay’ rebellion over ballooning Third World debt, writes ROGER McKENZIE
MPs and local mayors join protesters outside St Paul’s Cathedral, where 20,000 chain letters were presented, calling for the cancellation of Third World debt, March 1999
As six out of 10 Argentines don’t vote for Milei LEONEL POBLETE CODUTTI looks at the country’s real crisis that runs far deeper than just the ballot box
ANDREW MURRAY looks back on the ignominious career of the former US vice-president, who died earlier this week
STEPHEN ARNELL wonders at the family resemblance between former prince Andrew and his great-uncle ‘Dickie’
After Zohran Mamdani’s electoral win, BHABANI SHANKAR NAYAK points to the forgotten role of US communists in New York’s radical politics
The Labour leadership’s narrow definition of ‘working people’ leads to distorted and unjust Budget calculations, where the unearned income of the super-wealthy doesn’t factor in at all, argues JON TRICKETT MP
RICH European powers stole more than 20 million people out of Africa, shackled and enslaved them to transport them across the Atlantic, worked them to the bone and then underdeveloped the African continent through colonisation.
They then expected African nations to pay them back for the “privilege” of being exploited.
Any talk of reparations for the evils of slavery and colonialism is waved away with one dismissive hand while the other one is stretched out in the expectation that African nations pay back, with massive interest, the debt they have taken out to try to get their people out of the soul-destroying poverty that many are trapped in.
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