Israel continues to operate with impunity in what seems to be a brutal and protracted experiment, while much of the world looks on, says RAMZY BAROUD
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Labour after the charge of the right brigade
The recently expanded left wing of Britain's opposition party faces a righteous right-wing assault. Whether it survives or fragments, a renewed socialist movement will need more mass campaigning, a better class character and clarity of vision, argues NICK WRIGHT
A new report by Amnesty International pulls no punches in highlighting the Labour government’s human rights violations of those on benefits, says Dr DYLAN MURPHY
With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum
By sticking together, working collectively and building the union, we can weather any uncertainty ahead, writes general secretary of Usdaw PADDY LILLIS
The announcement of a Women’s Justice Board should be cautiously welcomed, writes SABINA PRICE, but we need to see a recognition that our prison system is in crisis and disproportionately punishes some of the most vulnerable people in society
Cuba Solidarity Campaign secretary BERNARD REGAN says the inhuman blockade of Cuba not only continues, but the Donald Trump administration is ratcheting up aggression against both Havana and Latin America more widely
KEIR STARMER’S suspension of Jeremy Corbyn for daring to tell the truth that Labour’s anti-Semitism problem was exaggerated for partisan political purposes reveals that his reputation for a forensically sharp legal mind is a confection. Either that or he is an unprincipled schemer.
The issue here is not the present LOTO’s maladroitly managed disciplining of Corbyn: Starmer and official Labour’s crude disregard for due process — and the brazen indifference to the EHRC’s own prescription for how such matters should be dealt with — were all priced into the political costs that this exemplary action entails.
Rather than a mild-mannered, non-confrontational leader who goes along with his nominal opposite number in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic, Starmer is suddenly transformed into an avenging angel — a resolute crusader consumed with righteous fury not at a government that has hastened the deaths of as yet uncounted thousands — but at his predecessor who is to be cast into the darkness.
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