As food and fuel run out, Gaza’s doctors appeal to the world to end the ‘genocide of children,’ reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Is the end of global tax-dodging in sight?
To make the super-rich pay their fair share, Britain must back the UN Tax Convention, argues NURI SYED CORSER of War on Want
LEVELLING THE PLAYING FIELD: (L to R) Brian Niccol of Starbucks and Charles III
While Trump threatens to send Haitian gang leaders to El Salvador's terror prison, DANNY SHAW reveals how these paramilitary groups are merely symptoms of US-backed neocolonial rule — the real terrorists are the CIA and international actors arming desperate youth to traumatise an unarmed population
Having endured 14 years of Tory austerity followed by Starmerite cuts, young voters are desperate for change — but Anas Sarwar’s refusal to differentiate from Westminster means Scottish Labour risks electoral catastrophe, writes LAUREN HARPER
Mark Harvey pays tribute to a veteran of the days when the London building trade was a hotbed of working-class struggle, a legendary trade unionist, communist and poet
Rather than hoping for the emergence of some new ‘party of the left,’ EMMA DENT COAD sees a broad alliance of local parties and community groups as a way of reviving democratic progressive politics
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
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
INDUSTRIAL-SCALE tax-dodging by the super-rich and big corporations is one of those galling injustices that feels so everyday that it’s hard to stay outraged.
This week, we learnt that governments around the world lost half a trillion dollars to tax-dodging.
Starbucks, whose new CEO commutes to work by private jet, paid just £7 million on its £548m of UK sales. Meanwhile, global inequality is skyrocketing.
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