As Palestine Action prisoners go weeks without food, alleging dangerous neglect and detention without trial, campaigners warn that a near-total media blackout is hiding a crisis that could turn fatal – and fuel a growing wave of public anger. ELIZABETH SHORT reports
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Fighting poverty starts in the canteen
In order to remove stigma and make sure children go to lessons well-fed, all primary students must receive free school meals, argues National Education Union joint general secretary KEVIN COURTNEY
Students eat lunch in the school canteen during the beginning of the roll-out of universal free school meals for primary school children at Ysgol Y Preseli in Pembrokeshire
As the new party emerges from its founding conference with a bold socialist identity, its future hinges on whether it can provide the organisational clarity needed to turn class sentiment into class power, argues NICK WRIGHT
RICHARD BURGON MP argues the left must build on recent victories and urgently unite around a bold cost-of-living programme
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
Barred from returning home, a group of Greek Brigaders came to Britain and founded the League for Democracy in Greece – a movement that carried the flame of anti-fascist resistance from the 1930s through the cold war and beyond. ALI BASSAM ZAHID tells the story
Your Party can become an antidote to Reform UK – but only by rooting itself in communities up and down the country, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
THE Liz Truss government’s mismanagement of the economy may be noteworthy in the speed with which it has precipitated a decline in living standards and brought the country to the brink of economic collapse, but the underlying features of the crisis are nothing new.
Truss’s government is drawing the threads of the past decade into the present to weave a new pattern.
The cost of living reached critical levels even before the new government came to power — and is the consequence of more than a decade of Conservative transfer of wealth from the poorest to the richest in society.
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Campaigners urge government to roll out universal free school meals