The crew of the Freedom Flotilla boat, Handala, warned Israel to obey international law but are now in captivity, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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Toxic agents and Tory hypocrisy
NICK WRIGHT examines some of the questions and motives which linger over the poisoning last week of Russian double agent Sergei Skripal
A Chilean court ruled that funds were illegally taken by the dictator to accumulate family wealth that is now disputed among his heirs, writes PABLO MERIGUET
DAVID HORSLEY remembers communist seaman Bill Bailey, the ‘Kid from Hoboken,’ whose heroics in tearing down a swastika flag from a ship’s mast inspired early anti-fascist resistance
Our Foreign Secretary now condemns Israel in the Commons, yet Britain still supplies weapons and intelligence for its bombing campaigns — as the horror reaches perhaps the final stage, action must finally replace words, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
I went to bed planning for university, but woke to bombs falling on Gaza, losing my home, best friend, and nearly my hand — yet I am unbroken, and still dream of writing to carry Palestinian voices worldwide, writes EMAN GHASSAN ABUZAYED
The shock suspension of socialist MPs and Diane Abbott’s re-suspension reveals a leadership intent on crushing internal debate — but MERCEDES VILLALBA MSP warns against surrendering party democracy without a fight
IT is entirely possible that the substance that felled the MI6 agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter originated not just eight miles away in Britain’s chemical and biological production facility at Porton Down but in some comparable facility in either the Russian Federation or one of the former Soviet republics.
It is also entirely possible that some element in the corrupt klepto-capitalist ruling elite of the Russian state, either with official sanction or without, is responsible for the outrage.
Decades have passed since the counter-revolution in which the Soviet Union ceased to exist and the socialist basis of its economy was dismantled.
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