Gaza’s collective sumud has proven more powerful than one of the world’s best-equipped militaries, but the change in international attitudes isn’t happening fast enough to save a starving population from Western-backed genocide, argues RAMZY BAROUD
Even the right hopes for a better left
Conservatives and centrists alike are recognising that the free-market system they’ve promoted doesn’t work; the goal is seemingly open, should we choose to kick the ball, writes ANDREW MURRAY
THE WORD IS OUT: A City worker walks past an anti-capitalist protest against the financial crisis, central London, 2011
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
JOHN PERRY, BECCA RENK and ROGER D HARRIS offer a corrective to the idea that Latin America still lags far behind the West on women’s rights by looking at the region’s significant feminist gains now stretching back decades
Danni Perry’s flag display at the Royal Opera House sparked 182 performers to sign a solidarity letter that cancelled the Tel Aviv Tosca production, while Leonardo DiCaprio invests in Tel Aviv hotels, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The summer saw the co-founders of modern communism travelling from Ramsgate to Neuenahr to Scotland in search of good weather, good health and good newspapers in the reading rooms, writes KEITH FLETT
STEPHEN ARNELL casts a critical eye over the sudden rash of challenges to the two-party system on both sides of the Atlantic, noting that today’s performative populist politics sadly lacks Roosevelt’s progressive ‘Bull Moose’ vision of the early 20th century
NICK TIMOTHY was chief of staff to Theresa May during her floundering premiership. Now he is an even more worried man.
His new gig is writing for the Daily Telegraph, the readers of which are treated to a steady stream of apocalyptic warnings from its columnists. Mostly these blame familiar targets — the woke, the French, Brussels, the Civil Service “blob” — for impending calamity.
But Timothy has sprung a surprise. He blames the state of Britain squarely on capitalism. It is quite the indictment. He points out that businesses have been focused on pushing down wage rates, taking advantage of the weakening of trade unions to do so.
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