Mass mobilisations are forcing governments to seriously consider imposing sanctions and severing ties — even in places like Australia and the Netherlands — despite continued arms shipments to Israel’s war machine, writes RAMZY BAROUD
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Build up the maximum pressure for a general election
The British people certainly do not need either Johnson or Hunt – they need a chance to go to the polls and reject austerity, says BILL GREENSHIELDS of the People’s Assembly
What we are learning today is that fascism can come to power even when the working class of almost every capitalist nation is very far from achieving revolution, argues DAVID LETHBRIDGE
TONY BURKE explains how an internationally significant breakthrough for workers’ organisation and recognition against two notoriously anti-union global mega corporations has been finally achieved in Canada
The heroism of the jury who defied prison and starvation conditions secured the absolute right of juries to deliver verdicts based on conscience — a convention which is now under attack, writes MAT COWARD
A Dutch investigation found seven internationally renowned Holocaust and genocide experts, including Israelis, concluded Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide, despite a campaign of denial and disinformation from the US state, writes TERRY HANSEN
The horrors in the Congo have much in common with Gaza’s genocide, most notably the financial and military support of the US, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
WE don’t need a Tory leadership contest. We need a general election — an opportunity to elect an anti-austerity government and the chance to build a huge alliance inside and outside Parliament against the monopolies that currently exert economic and political power against the needs and the will of the people.
As the People’s Assembly made clear in its programme In Place of Austerity, it is the sinister and manipulative world of corporate power that provides the driving force of austerity in Britain and throughout the world.
And we know that whatever wing of the Tory Party finally comes out on top, none of them will ever acknowledge the fact that all of them exist to serve those interests — the billionaires, the tax dodgers, the off-shorers, the huge international monopoly corporation interests.
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