Mass mobilisations are forcing governments to seriously consider imposing sanctions and severing ties — even in places like Australia and the Netherlands — despite continued arms shipments to Israel’s war machine, writes RAMZY BAROUD

TWO very important developments in the struggle against the pandemic took place this week. They illustrate the seriousness of the spread of the virus on a global scale, which unfortunately often gets rather overlooked in this country. But they also indicate something about the Labour Party’s approach to international affairs, and what the adoption of a progressive internationalist outlook could mean in practice.
The two key developments themselves are first the approach of another high point for recorded new cases of the coronavirus, which is extremely worrying.
The second is the call of former leading politicians for the suspension of Covid-19 vaccine patents.

Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP

DIANE ABBOTT explodes the anti-migrant myths perpetrated by cynical politicians and an irresponsible mass media

Our Foreign Secretary now condemns Israel in the Commons, yet Britain still supplies weapons and intelligence for its bombing campaigns — as the horror reaches perhaps the final stage, action must finally replace words, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP

The BBC and OBR claim that failing to cut disability benefits could ‘destabilise the economy’ while ignoring the spendthrift approach to tens of billions on military spending that really spirals out of control, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP