Gaza’s collective sumud has proven more powerful than one of the world’s best-equipped militaries, but the change in international attitudes isn’t happening fast enough to save a starving population from Western-backed genocide, argues RAMZY BAROUD
The ascent and fall of Corbynism
Recognising the true nature of the Parliamentary Labour Party and its 100-year commitment to imperialism is crucial to understanding why it proved so resistant to change from within during the years of Corbyn’s leadership, argues ANDREW MURRAY
UNDIMINISHED APPEAL: Jeremy Corbyn with St Mungo's workers as they begin a month long strike over pay, May 30 2023
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
JOHN PERRY, BECCA RENK and ROGER D HARRIS offer a corrective to the idea that Latin America still lags far behind the West on women’s rights by looking at the region’s significant feminist gains now stretching back decades
Danni Perry’s flag display at the Royal Opera House sparked 182 performers to sign a solidarity letter that cancelled the Tel Aviv Tosca production, while Leonardo DiCaprio invests in Tel Aviv hotels, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The summer saw the co-founders of modern communism travelling from Ramsgate to Neuenahr to Scotland in search of good weather, good health and good newspapers in the reading rooms, writes KEITH FLETT
STEPHEN ARNELL casts a critical eye over the sudden rash of challenges to the two-party system on both sides of the Atlantic, noting that today’s performative populist politics sadly lacks Roosevelt’s progressive ‘Bull Moose’ vision of the early 20th century
WITHIN Jeremy Corbyn’s 40 years as MP for Islington North, five stand out — those stretching from his election as Labour Party leader in September 2015 through to his suspension from the party whip by his successor in October 2020.
Those were the years in which he lent his name to an “ism” and generated a political movement which had, for a time, extraordinary vitality.
It is scarcely a secret that Jeremy Corbyn, who the present writer has known and campaigned alongside for many years and who worked with him during his leadership, never expected to be Labour leader nor coveted the post.
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