General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
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Whenever Israel’s crimes make the headlines, they are swiftly effaced from the public narrative as military and commercial interests take precedence over justice for Palestinians, argues JENNY KASSMAN
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After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Bizarrely, Trump’s latest attacks now include the National Zoo, but his real and racist agenda is to strip everything black from the country’s cultural institutions, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The transformation of a stable secular state into a fractured ruin largely ruled by Western-backed fundamentalists exposes the hollow nature of ‘multipolarity’ and the absence of principled anti-imperialism today, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Facing economic turmoil, Jim Callaghan’s government rejected Tony Benn’s alternative economic strategy in favour of cuts that paved the way for Thatcherism — and the cuts-loving Labour of the present era, writes KEITH FLETT
The economic value of disability benefits far outweighs their cost, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
As tensions rise in the Middle East, the role of Iran in the region’s political balance becomes ever more significant. STEVE BISHOP assesses the current situation
LAST WEEK marked two months since the killing of the Palestinian-US journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in Jenin refugee camp as she, together with colleagues, were covering a raid on a Palestinian house by the Israeli occupation forces.
For once, the killing of a Palestinian by an Israeli soldier in the West Bank — a territory occupied by Israel since 1967 — drew media attention, possibly because she was also a US citizen.
We also witnessed the horrifying scenes at Shireen’s funeral cortege where the Israeli police attacked mourners, including the pall bearers, almost causing her coffin to drop.
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