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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Corbynism was right: war is a domestic issue
Those who feel that progressive policies on things like the welfare state mean we can ignore the overseas crimes of Western foreign policy have always been dangerously wrong, explains ANDREW MURRAY
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn joins a demonstration in Parliament Square, London, by the Stop the War campaign group to demand that politicians recognise that the war in Afghanistan was a catastrophe that must not be repeated. Picture date: Wednesday August 18, 2021
The obfuscation of Nazism’s capitalist roots has seen imperialism redeploy fascism again and again — from the killing fields of Guatemala to the war in Ukraine, writes PAWEL WARGAN
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
THOSE who recall Andrew Fisher’s histrionic resignation as Labour Party policy director in autumn 2019, delivered in such a way as to be inevitably leaked and thereby do significant damage to the then-struggling Corbyn leadership of the party, should not have been surprised at his latest sally.
Fisher has demanded that the Stop the War Coalition disband itself, and abused the “warped minds of the withered remnants” of its leadership, because it does not speak in his name in relation to the Ukraine war, in which he supports Nato policy.
This particular warped, withered remnant was not shocked — “Cowards will flinch, traitors will sneer” after all. Check the story of the frog and the scorpion for details. Such response as Fisher’s article requires can be found at Stopwar.org.uk for those interested.
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