RAMZY BAROUD on how Israel’s narrative collides with military failure
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Corbynistas must show resolve after NEC defeat
The unrelenting campaign to smear Corbyn must be met with an unwavering commitment to keeping him as leader, says JOHN HAYLETT
ROGER McKENZIE explains how Ibrahim Traore has sparked the flames of hope across Africa, while the Western powers seek to extinguish all attempts to build true sovereignty in the long-exploited continent
DANIEL GOVER considers the procedural complexities awaiting a Private Member’s Bill in its passage through Commons and Lords
JAMIE TUCKNUTT reports on an initiative that brings together two epochs of the city’s anti-fascist struggles
Just as German Social Democrats joined the Nazis in singing Deutschland Uber Alles, ANDREW MURRAY observes how Starmer tries to out-Farage Farage with anti-migrant policies — but evidence shows Reform voters come from Tories, not Labour, making this ploy morally bankrupt and politically pointless
KEITH FLETT traces how the ‘world’s most successful political party’ has imploded since Thatcher’s fall, from nine leaders in 30 years to losing all 16 English councils, with Reform UK symbolically capturing Peel’s birthplace, Tamworth — but the beast is not dead yet
With turnout plummeting and faith in Parliament collapsing, BERT SCHOUWENBURG explains how radical local government reform — including devolved taxation and removal of party politics from town halls — could restore power to communities currently ignored by profit-obsessed MPs
AND YET, as legend has Galileo observing defiantly, after being obliged by the Catholic Church to disavow, on pain of death, his heretical theory that the Earth orbits the Sun, “still it turns.”
Jeremy Corbyn has not been condemned to lifelong house arrest for maintaining his position that the “accepted international” definition of anti-semitism — in reality, adopted to an extent by just 31 of the world’s 195 states — is more about tempering criticism of Israel than combating hatred of Jews.
His position as Labour leader has, however, been weakened by the failure of the party national executive committee (NEC) to back his principled stance.
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