ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians
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From Workers’ Memorial Day to May Day rallies, TOM MORRISON examines the real challenges facing the labour movement as Reform UK’s glossy literature exploits legitimate grievances in traditional left strongholds
Calls have been made for the return to Venezuela of a two-year-old girl currently being held in the US, after being separated from her family by immigration officials, reports SUSAN GREY
In the first of two articles, DANIEL POWELL investigates the causal aspects of the Russo-Ukrainian war as Britain commemorates 80 years since VE Day
LAURA PIDCOCK, who addresses today’s Gala, is not surprised that the summer has seen media and Establishment hostility to Labour reach fever pitch.
“We’re in a quite extraordinary political situation,” she says, “every party is. Conservatism and ‘free market’ capitalism are getting difficult to justify.
“The right know that on social care, on the NHS, on schools, the idea that the market can do a better job than a public service is being hammered. We have the Care Quality Commission reports and the waiting lists and the public can see that the private sector has failed, and not just failed the workers but the patients and users too.
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