BEN CHACKO reports on fears at TUC Congress that the provisions in the legislation are liable to be watered down even further
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Let's speak up for Palestine while we still can
Writing ahead of the Labour and Palestine fringe, MATT WILLGRESS says the continuing occupation and attacks on civilians by Israel must be cause to redouble our own resistance to attacks from the right on the solidarity movement here in Britain
Delegates wave Palestinian flags at the Labour Party's annual conference in 2018
CHRIS HOOFE calls for support for GMB’s Potters’ Pledge campaign, aimed at making sure the historic pottery industry based in Stoke-on-Trent is supported over cheap, low-quality imports and counterfeits
Investing the £75 billion slated for defence spending on a green new deal, healthcare and education would create jobs and help communities far more than weapons spending, argues UCU general secretary JO GRADY
Speaking to the Morning Star’s Ceren Sagir, general secretary of the National Union of Journalists LAURA DAVISON outlines the threats to journalism from Palestine to Britain, and the unique challenges confronting the industry through the rise of AI
We must organise broad-based counterprotests and celebratory local community events to rebuild class consciousness and challenge the far-right’s divisive lies, writes KEVIN COURTNEY, ahead of this Saturday’s big demo in London
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE
IN August, Israel’s renewed bombing of Gaza killed 44 Palestinians, including 15 children, in addition to injuring at least 350. This was described by the UN special rapporteur as an act contrary to international law.
As Michelle Bachelet said, “Such attacks must stop,” and international law is clear that “launching an attack which may be expected to incidentally kill or injure civilians, or damage civilian objects, in disproportionate manner to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated, is prohibited.”
Yet Israel does exactly this in Palestine again and again, year after year.
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