Lasting peace requires the establishment of justice, the formation of an independent Palestinian state, and respect for the national sovereignty of the Palestinian people, writes NAVID SHOMALI
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Can the French left unite to take on Macron?
La France Insoumise, the Greens, the communists and the PS are seeking to forge a broad alliance for next month’s parliamentary polls, hoping to force the president into ‘cohabitation’ with a left prime minister. NICK WRIGHT sizes up the political landscape
Demonstrators hold a placard reading: ‘Down with work and its cops’ during a May Day march in Paris
The West’s dangerous pesticide dumping in Africa is threatening biodiversity, population health and food sovereignty, argues ROGER McKENZIE
There is no substitute for hard work and on-the-ground organising when it comes to defeating the hard right, argues JOAO FELIX
EDDIE DEMPSEY explains why the RMT is calling for urgent action against assaults on staff and passengers on our public transport system
KELLIE O’DOWD reports on an event to highlight the GMB sisterhood
The Scottish labour movement’s rejection of the Supreme Court ruling on sex-based rights jeopardises not only the credibility of the unions but also poses legal risks and opens the door to far-right reaction, warns JANE McLENACHAN
THE rough outcome of the French presidential election was the differentiation of the French nation into three distinct electoral blocs.
President Emmanuel Macron is the figurehead of the nominally centre right, wedded to neoliberalism, the Atlantic alliance and the EU, often socially liberal but invariably invested in the the property-owning myths and trickle-down idiocies of modern capitalist ideology.
Macron assembled a media-managed machine to incorporate the neoliberal elite and thus rendered both the traditional Gaullist party, now rebranded as Les Republicains, and the Socialist Party (PS) redundant as instruments for the rule of capital.
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