A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
It’s the stupid economy
Following the recent success of a range of economic seminars, DOUG NICHOLLS, general secretary of the GFTU, argues we have to get a popular and rigorous alternative economic strategy embedded throughout the movement
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
As tensions escalate over Iran, CAROL MOCHAN MSP argues that Britain must finally learn from the disastrous legacy of Iraq and choose diplomacy over another catastrophic conflict
While Wes Streeting claims Britain lacks a growth strategy, his own NHS plans reveal one – turning the health service’s vast troves of patient data into a commercial asset for tech giants, investors and private healthcare firms, says HELEN MERCER
The mass killing of Iranian schoolgirls should have dominated global headlines. Instead it became another example of how civilians — especially women and children — are targeted in war, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
WHEN there is a kerfuffle about a prime minister the Westminster bubble and the trivial media inflate themselves in momentary euphoria, while almost universally misreading the messages.
Actually the Tory Party doesn’t do personality or identity politics. That’s one of the reasons it is the most successful right-wing party in the world — it clings on through thick and thin because it makes a virtue out of pragmatism and abandons every principle except the defence of capital.
They won the last election because they had the bottle to reflect the democratic will of the people in the referendum. Get Brexit Done was a representative, popular and necessary slogan.
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