SWEE ANG, the founder of Medical Aid for Palestinians, is a big believer in the power of small actions, and she is the living proof it works, writes Linda Pentz Gunter
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As after World War II, we can never go back
The coronavirus has seen the state mobilised in support of its people in a way we were told was impossible. Just as the working class refused to go back to poverty after WWII, we must do the same now, writes IAN LAVERY
An aerial view of (from the left), High Level Bridge, Swing Bridge, Tyne Bridge and Gateshead Millennium Bridge, which span the River Tyne in Newcastle. The North East looks set to become the latest area in England to come under local restrictions as coronavirus cases rise
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the difficulties surrounding freedom of expression
Kenny MacAskill remembers a ‘Sovietologist’ and voice for peace and reconciliation at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
In part II of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY explores how witch-hunting drives took hold in the Civil Service as the cold war emerged in the wake of WWII
The right to buy may have been scrapped in Scotland, but the damage it has done lives on even now, writes MATT KERR
Ahead of the CP’s Congress later this month, RICHARD HEBBERT looks at the pressing climate issues humanity faces and their interdependence with capitalism
THIS weekend would ordinarily have seen tens of thousands of Labour members heading to Liverpool to our annual conference.
2020 however has been a far from ordinary year. Indeed, as I write this I do so from a north-east that has had fresh restrictions imposed after cases of coronavirus reached worrying levels.
Labour Conference has been replaced with an online version — and many people are left worrying about what might happen next.
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