From training Israeli colonels during the slaughter to protecting Israel at the UN, senior British figures should fear Article 3 of the Genocide Convention that criminalises complicity in mass killing, writes IAN SINCLAIR
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Dealing with ‘compost confusion’
Don't be put off by composting. It's as simple or complicated as you wish to make it, writes MATT COWARD
General secretary of the YCL GEORGINA ANDREWS looks at the priorities of her organisation, from Palestine solidarity to trade unionism and fighting privatisation at a local level, ahead of its 52nd congress
LUKE FLETCHER fleshes out Plaid Cymru's plan for the revitalisation of Wales's economy
From hunting rare pamphlets at book sales to online panels and courses on trade unionism and class politics, the MML continues connecting archive treasures with the movements fighting for a better world, writes director MEIRIAN JUMP
‘Honest’ Tom Wharton’s 1682 drunken rampage through St Mary’s church haunted his political career, but his satirical song Lillibullero helped topple Catholic James II during the Glorious Revolution, writes MAT COWARD
President Maduro mobilises the 4.5 million-strong Bolivarian National Militia in response to US ‘threats’, vowing to defend the country’s sovereignty and independence, DEVIN B MARTINEZ reports
THE old world is dying, as Comrade Gramsci memorably told us, and the new world struggles to be born — and one of the minor side-effects of this is that many people are turning to growing their own vegetables and fruit for the first time.
And many of them will at some stage hit the wall known to neophyte gardeners as “compost confusion.”
The first point to grasp is that the word compost is used to describe two different things. You can buy bags of compost from real or online garden shops. That’s used for sowing seeds into in small pots or trays, to be planted out when they’re bigger, or for filling up large pots and tubs which will be the permanent homes of plants.
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