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Palestine protests must have a realisable goal
Bringing to bear our collective power over our governments in the West to enforce peace is best aided by a demand for a viable Palestinian state here and now, argues NICK WRIGHT
Pro-Palestine protesters in Washington
CHRISTOPHE DOMEC speaks to the France Insoumise politician facing constant persecution from French authorities
It can be hard to discern conspiracy theory from reality and under the Trump regime the two might just be the same thing, writes Linda Pentz Gunter
ALAN SIMPSON says responses to the Golders Green attacks risk deepening divides across our country
Capturing the general strikes history is a vital part of our struggles today, posits HENRY FOWLER
On a tumultuous day in Welsh politics DAVID NICHOLSON looks at the key issues for progressives in Wales to grapple with the rise of the far right
DAVID CAMERON has emerged from his £25,000 faux Romany caravan to conduct the foreign policy of the second most powerful imperialist state in the world.
After the crudities of the Suella Braverman interlude, we are told that Rishi Sunak’s latest appointment gifts him a wise consigliere offering a socially liberal gloss to his Tory government.
Even those metropolitan sophisticates invested in the most permissive of moral regimes might find simulated intimacy with a dead pig at the outer limits of their tolerance and perhaps not the best qualification for one embarking on a Middle Eastern diplomatic mission.
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