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The US-Israeli strikes against Iran are part of a decades-long war against the Islamic Republic which has refused to bow to US demands that it surrender its sovereignty, argues VIJAY PRASHAD
The TUC’s NIKKI POUND says there are gains in the Employment Rights Act for women — but there’s a hell of a lot more to fight for
Scotland’s deepening crises expose the human cost of political complacency — and the toll it is taking on working-class communities, says NEIL FINDLAY
KENNY MacASKILL looks at the extraordinary political commitment of a Church of Scotland minister’s wife
History shows from Iraq to Libya, and now Iran, that regime-change fantasies rarely deliver stability — but they always deliver human and economic cost, says MARYAM ESLAMDOUST
DEMOCRACY is very much the byword for this week, or more precisely the subversion of it.
While the yeah and nay camps in the EU referendum debacle continue to ramp up their blustering bullshit and bipartisan bastardry as polling day nears, both are very keen on employing the term for their own ends.
“We must preserve our democracy,” they howl in faux anguish. While conversely anything they disagree with but can’t win the argument over is simply branded undemocratic, nonsense, or both.
MAT COWARD tells the story of the eccentric founder of a short-lived but striking experiment in ‘vital democracy,’ who became best known for giving away his estate to the nation
The global left must be unwavering in it is support for Venezuela as Washington increases its aggression, and clear-eyed about the West’s cynical motives for targeting it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
Modi has rolled out the carpet for the Taliban in New Delhi — and we shouldn’t be surprised. They have more in common than you might think, argues Bhabani Shankar Nayak
