Netanyahu’s failed attempt to replace Shin Bet’s chief violates longstanding Israeli political taboos, as the apartheid state’s internal power struggle spirals to a new level of crisis while Gaza burns, writes RAMZY BAROUD
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Brexit: why October is good to go
FAWZI IBRAHIM argues Labour should support the government’s determination to leave the EU at the end of next month
Labour needs to take a clear position
Following the historic ban on companies profiting from children’s care, Unison Cymru calls for transparency in implementing the changes and extending the reform to create a truly national, profit-free care service, says MARK TURNER
The left must confront both far-right bigotry and the undeniable problems the exploitation of migrant workers by the ruling class creates — but there are few lessons from the global left on how to strike this balance, laments NICK WRIGHT
STEPHAN BLUM presents the evidence that wine was enjoyed by common folk, independent of upper-class celebrations and religious rituals
The series unveils uncomfortable truths about youth alienation and online radicalisation — but the real crisis lies in austerity and the absence of class consciousness in addressing young people’s disillusionment, says teacher ROBERT POOLE
Our delegation found a small but brave and bold socialist nation that has withstood imperialist machinations and poisonous slander to make impressive leaps in healthcare and women’s rights, reports VETERANS FOR PEACE
Born from my communist social worker mother’s efforts to bridge healthcare gaps, Labour’s push for home-based care now risks becoming another avenue for the US corporate takeover of the NHS, writes RICHARD CLARKE
LABOUR must learn from the mistakes Syriza made in Greece, come clean about the incompatibility of Labour’s industrial and economic plans with membership of the EU, and above all avoid doing the establishment’s dirty work.
The genie is out. The people voted to leave the EU. Those who want to put the genie back in the bottle will have their fingers burned. Labour’s support for a second referendum and its declared willingness to contemplate abandoning Brexit if that is what it takes to stop a no-deal Brexit is a death wish. Workers have no truck with their “betters” trying to put them back in their place.
Having voted to leave the EU, those who make it their business to thwart Brexit fall in the same category as those who manoeuvre to hinder and obstruct a workplace strike that was agreed in a democratic vote of a trade union’s membership.
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