SOLOMON HUGHES highlights a 1995 Sunday Times story about the disappearance of ‘defecting Iraqi nuclear scientist.’ Even though the story was debunked, it was widely repeated across the mainstream press, creating the false – and deadly – narrative of Iraqi WMD that eventually led to war
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When it comes to extreme weather events, from wildfires to flash floods, it’s firefighters who are on the front line of defence, but services have been cut to the bone, and government is not taking seriously its responsibility for the environment, says STEVE WRIGHT
A blaze across a large area of gorse in Newry, where firefighters are tackling the flames which have been burning for several days, as the Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service said the wildfire at this stage appears to have been deliberately started, Ap
RUBY ALDEN GIBSON believes Scottish parliament has enough powers to curtail Westminster Labour’s savage attack on welfare
KEVIN DONNELLY reports from Monte Faudo and its annual remembrance of the region’s WWII partisan anti-fascist battles
The Trump government is seizing overseas students from their homes and campuses and even off the streets, with no legal grounds and no due process, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
As global fascism grows, ROGER McKENZIE urges the left to reclaim May Day’s revolutionary roots — not as an act of nostalgia, but as fuel for building a ‘community of resistance’ against exploitation and the rise of fascism
Our unions need to make a firm stand against so-called ‘defence spending’: the boss class say there’s no magic money tree — and there should be no magic mushroom cloud either, argues NATHAN HENNEBRY
KEITH FLETT revisits the 1978 origins of Britain’s May Day bank holiday — from Michael Foot’s triumph to Thatcher’s reluctant acceptance — as Starmer’s government dodges calls to expand our working-class celebrations
THIS year’s International Workers’ Day was the hottest on record in the UK.
May Day has a long, proud history, with its origins in the struggle for an eight-hour working day towards the end of the 19th century. But while the fight for justice and workers’ rights never wavers, the climate is changing. Last year, May temperatures reached the highest they have ever been globally.
These soaring temperatures are a wake-up call. The climate emergency won’t wait, and it can’t be separated from workers’ struggles. No-one is more aware of this than firefighters, who are already battling to save lives from increasing extreme weather events across the world.
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