As tens of thousands return to the streets for the first national Palestine march of 2026, this movement refuses to be sidelined or silenced, says PETER LEARY
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Fortress Europe and the refugee crisis
It is the EU’s own policies that have caused the flow of desperate migrants that politicians wring their hands over. Working-class humanity and solidarity will now be key, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used
One of Canada’s most revered politicians is a native of Falkirk but is relatively unknown in his original homeland. KENNY MacASKILL tells his story
Labour prospects in May elections may be irrevocably damaged by Birmingham Council’s costly refusal to settle the year-long dispute, warns STEVE WRIGHT
HENRY FOWLER and ROB POOLE explain the significance of today’s Megapicket
SIX years ago the European Union added its voice to the global popular outrage at Donald Trump’s plan to build a wall between the US and Mexico.
Trump’s wall was a motif for all that is wrong with his brand of nativist reaction. European governments marketed themselves as the liberal internationalist counterforce to the “illiberal democrats” who saw Trump as their champion.
Since then, Trump failed to get re-elected and the EU and its component states have built over 1,000 kilometres of wall and razor fencing on their borders and internally.
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