SOLOMON HUGHES finds the government went along with a US scheme to distract from Israel’s lethal Gaza blockade with an impractical floating pier scheme – though its own officials knew it wouldn’t work
Sharon Graham: all power to the workplace
If elected general secretary of Unite, I will lead a union that focuses on the shop floor not Westminster and build up membership by delivering on jobs, pay and conditions
Sharon Graham
Historically the framework of that expulsion of Palestinians was predicated on the use of war as a pretext, as opposed to war as a response to Palestinian resistance, writes RAMZY BAROUD
VICTORIA HOLMES salutes the brave stand being taken by Palestine Action hunger-strikers in British prisons, and explains their demands
SYMON HILL looks at Tommy Robinson’s bid to use Christmas to spread division and hate — and reminds us that’s the opposite of Jesus’s message
CAMERON HARRISON and CJ ATKINS analyse the White House’s new strategy in detail
DENNIS BROE says media ownership is not only grossly concentrated in the US, Britain and France – new mergers are advancing the power of the rich to censor the news
TRADE UNIONS are in crisis. Collective bargaining is in decline. Jobs are under threat. Pay and conditions are being cut. We need a co-ordinated fightback and a clear industrial plan for the workplace.
If political rhetoric takes the place of hard industrial work, then the left will face a real existential crisis.
The unions can be lost as surely as Labour has lost the red wall.
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