Netanyahu’s failed attempt to replace Shin Bet’s chief violates longstanding Israeli political taboos, as the apartheid state’s internal power struggle spirals to a new level of crisis while Gaza burns, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Latest editorial
70 years of the World Peace Council
LIZ PAYNE pays tribute to the WPC and its struggle against imperialist aggression as it enters its eighth decade this weekend
Dove
Following the historic ban on companies profiting from children’s care, Unison Cymru calls for transparency in implementing the changes and extending the reform to create a truly national, profit-free care service, says MARK TURNER
The left must confront both far-right bigotry and the undeniable problems the exploitation of migrant workers by the ruling class creates — but there are few lessons from the global left on how to strike this balance, laments NICK WRIGHT
STEPHAN BLUM presents the evidence that wine was enjoyed by common folk, independent of upper-class celebrations and religious rituals
The series unveils uncomfortable truths about youth alienation and online radicalisation — but the real crisis lies in austerity and the absence of class consciousness in addressing young people’s disillusionment, says teacher ROBERT POOLE
Our delegation found a small but brave and bold socialist nation that has withstood imperialist machinations and poisonous slander to make impressive leaps in healthcare and women’s rights, reports VETERANS FOR PEACE
Born from my communist social worker mother’s efforts to bridge healthcare gaps, Labour’s push for home-based care now risks becoming another avenue for the US corporate takeover of the NHS, writes RICHARD CLARKE
THIS weekend, the World Peace Council (WPC) is marking the 70th anniversary of its foundation and seven decades as an international mass organisation of struggle against imperialism and war and for peace and justice, in solidarity with all peace-loving people of the world.
At a recent meeting of its secretariat in Belgrade, WPC president Socorro Gomes said: “I would like to celebrate with you the long and brave path of our peace organisation, with its history of struggle and resistance … [It] remains committed to building ever more bridges, today and tomorrow, for the unity of the anti-imperialist, democratic and peace forces against oppression, colonialism, wars and domination.”
From April 20-24 1949 at the Salle Pleyel in Paris, 2,000 delegates from 75 countries gathered for the first World Congress of Partisans for Peace, which was shortly to be renamed the WPC.
More from this author
If we want to take on war in 2025, we must take on our own governments in the West, and most of all, take on Nato, writes the convener of the British Peace Assembly, LIZ PAYNE
LIZ PAYNE draws the parallels between 1945’s atomic horrors and today's conflicts, calling for mass resistance to Western aggression and a renewed push for global disarmament
LIZ PAYNE explains that the only valid political demand over the conflict in Ukraine is that it is brought to an end as quickly as possible
Workers have always been at the forefront of resistance to the religious dictatorship in Iran, and now teachers have taken up the struggle to to redirect the nation's ample resources from militarisation to education, writes LIZ PAYNE