The Defence Universities Alliance is a bit to co-opt higher education into the wider drive to war — we should resist as earlier generations of scientists did, argue say ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT of SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
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Israeli abuse of children: Labour must speak up for Palestine
MATT WILLGRESS writes ahead of the UN International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People and warns of the growing concern that the Labour front bench barely speaks out at all on the issue today
The broader picture is that all the fundamental injustices which make international solidarity vital remain — the Palestinian people are being oppressed by an illegal occupation and denied their fundamental rights as outlined by international law.
In the third of a four-part serialisation from her new book No to Nuclear, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER explains how the world had a chance to build an energy system around renewables more than 70 years ago — instead, it chose nuclear
In the fourth and final part of our serialisation from LINDA PENTZ GUNTER’S book No to Nuclear, she asks how anyone can see nuclear as value for money given its constantly ballooning costs
Elon Musk says AI will make work optional. The world of abundance he predicts actually spells the end of the capitalist system, argues FAWZI IBRAHIM
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Indian students have fought for the right to education, schooling us all in the process. Comrades from the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) — UK comment on the resistance and its ripples here
THIS month marks two international dates of great significance for the Palestinian people and international campaigns for their rights.
Tomorrow sees the United Nations International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People and November 20 was World Children’s Day.
On the latter, the Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs (CDA) published shocking figures that not only show how the illegal Israeli occupation abuses Palestinian children’s human rights, but also starkly illustrate the horrific nature of life for people in the occupied territories, including under-siege Gaza.
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