This year marks the 110th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising. TOM GALLAHUE and ROBERT POOLE from Educators for a United Ireland discuss the role played by the Irish diaspora, and why the Rising remains relevant today
Hope for Palestine is hope for the left
The British left can be proud that it never abandoned Palestine to be more acceptable to the Establishment — today it is Palestine and the huge rebellion it has inspired that is breathing life into our movement, writes KEVIN OVENDEN
ISRAEL’S war on Gaza and on the Palestinian people is upending politics across the globe. In few places is that more so than in Britain.
It was surreal this week to see the editor of the Jewish Chronicle, a once-respected weekly, accuse former defence secretary Ben Wallace MP of being a Hamas surrogate. Wallace is a hawk and was touted as a replacement from the right of the Tory Party for Liz Truss.
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