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Labour, war and opposition
Socialist historian KEITH FLETT looks at the Labour Party’s inconsistent attitude to war over the last century, and what we can do to shape it
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
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THE current Labour Party leadership has reached a new low in its backing for a siege of Gaza — quite against international law and UN policy — and the old-fashioned sabre-rattling of sending navy gunboats to support an Israeli government that is almost certainly better-armed than Britain.
The disgrace is not just in the support for Israel’s actions, but also the lack of opposition and dissent at the top in the Labour Party and the unions.
The international conventions that Labour is currently ignoring were the product of a post-1945 era where the framework for a new world order was laid out, including policies on refugees, acceptable behaviour in war, and the creation of the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
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