As Colombia approaches presidential elections next year, the US decision to decertify the country in the war on drugs plays into the hands of its allies on the political right, writes NICK MacWILLIAM
Boycotts have a long history — and the Tories never like them
Boycotts are one of the oldest forms of working-class collective pressure on employers, hitting their profits in sales rather than the workplace. No wonder the party of business hates them, writes KEITH FLETT
Bishops, among the leaders of a peaceful anti-apartheid demonstration, are seen heading the 2000 marchers from Twickenham Station to the Rugby ground, before the start of the England v South Africa match in December 1969
The move against alleged PKK members that sparked outrage as a community centre in north London was raided last year has now come to trial, writes TONY BURKE, but in the meantime, the peace process abroad has changed the situation almost entirely
A new report points a way to overcome complacent framing of climate issues, ‘by sparking a wider public reckoning with climate realities,’ and reconnecting with working-class people. IAN SINCLAIR reports
We cannot understand today’s world without understanding the rise of China – and we cannot understand China without understanding how it was shaped by the second world war, writes JENNY CLEGG
NICK WRIGHT reports from Italy, where 80 cities saw Gaza strikes as unions paralysed transport and massive crowds clashed with police in Milan — but France is also kicking off, and Westminster, in a very different way, is facing a crisis of legitimacy too
Escalating anti-China rhetoric from the West has a clear purpose – to manufacture consent for the new cold war, and potentially a hot one, argues CARLOS MARTINEZ
A PIECE of legislation designed to prevent public bodies, including local authorities, from steering clear of investments in countries whose human rights records they disagree with is before Parliament.
On July 3 only 10 MPs voted against it, with many abstaining. Backers included the legislation’s sponsor Michael Gove and the parliamentary frontman for Labour Friends of Israel Steve McCabe.
The target of the legislation is not, as might be supposed, Russia — but Israel. There is a significant boycott, divestment and sanction (BDS) movement that focuses on the activities of the Israeli government, which is currently of a hard to far-right political nature. Military intervention in Jenin, part of an area Israel occupies, underlines the reality of that government’s activities.
Meanwhile the government of course is officially boycotting Russia over the war with Ukraine. There clearly remain links, however, between the Tories the Russian government and business people.
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Who you ask and how you ask matter, as does why you are asking — the history of opinion polls shows they are as much about creating opinions as they are about recording them, writes socialist historian KEITH FLETT
KEITH FLETT revisits debates about the name and structure of proposed working-class parties in the past
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
