Gaza’s collective sumud has proven more powerful than one of the world’s best-equipped militaries, but the change in international attitudes isn’t happening fast enough to save a starving population from Western-backed genocide, argues RAMZY BAROUD
The hurdles facing the peace movement in Britain
Winning a public hearing for arguments against the war in Ukraine is difficult for a number of reasons – but the ground is starting to shift, and our energies must be directed towards halting the conflict as an urgent priority, says ANDREW MURRAY
Ukrainian soldiers during training at the frontline in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Saturday, April 15, 2023
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
JOHN PERRY, BECCA RENK and ROGER D HARRIS offer a corrective to the idea that Latin America still lags far behind the West on women’s rights by looking at the region’s significant feminist gains now stretching back decades
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The summer saw the co-founders of modern communism travelling from Ramsgate to Neuenahr to Scotland in search of good weather, good health and good newspapers in the reading rooms, writes KEITH FLETT
STEPHEN ARNELL casts a critical eye over the sudden rash of challenges to the two-party system on both sides of the Atlantic, noting that today’s performative populist politics sadly lacks Roosevelt’s progressive ‘Bull Moose’ vision of the early 20th century
A RECENT article in this paper asked why there was no mass initiative to stop the war in Ukraine in Britain, comparable to the developing movement in Germany.
It is a reasonable question, to which there is a variety of partial answers.
First, there is no element in the British bourgeoisie sympathetic, for trade or political grounds, to Russia as there is in Germany; nor is there an isolationist wing of the political establishment as there is in the United States.
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