With the death of Pope Francis, the world loses not only a church leader but also a moral compass
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The Sound of Silence – a politics beyond breakdown
The world faces huge threats that know no national boundaries. ALAN SIMPSON asks where is the radical thinking needed to meet these challenges
Residents walk through flood water in Retford in Nottinghamshire, after Storm Babet battered the UK, causing widespread flooding and high winds.
LYNNE WALSH previews the Bristol Radical History Conference this weekend
Keir Starmer’s £120 million to Sudan cannot cover the government’s complicity in the RSF genocide or atone for the long shadow of British colonialism and imperialism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
Join the traditional march from Clerkenwell Green, which will bring together countless international workers’ organisations in a statement against the far right
Ecuador’s election wasn’t free — and its people will pay the price under President Noboa
Mountains of research show that hardcore material harms children, yet there are still no simple measures in place
We face austerity, privatisation, and toxic influence. But we are growing, and cannot be beaten
IT’S HARD to focus on anything other than Gaza at the moment. Its incessant bombing won’t have had anyone celebrating Paul Simon’s 82nd birthday by singing “Hello darkness, my old friend...”
By margins that are difficult to comprehend, we are well beyond Israel’s credible limits of “legitimate self defence.”
The collective punishment of Palestinians — from the denial of food, water and electricity to the bombing of hospitals and the demand that one million people evacuate their homes — has filled all the news coverage that followed the Hamas’s atrocities.
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