While international actors discuss governance and reconstruction, Netanyahu has made it clear that Israel has no intention of ending its military occupation, says RAMZY BAROUD
Let’s put a windfall tax on companies profiting from the Covid-19 crisis
We need to ensure that this crisis is not paid for on the backs of the working class, argues RICHARD BURGON MP
A campaigner outside the Department of Health and Social Care office in London protesting over Serco's handling of the test, track and trace system
NICK WRIGHT continues his series analysing the trends in European politics
We have the alternative economics, histories of our struggles and the confidence to change the world
General Federation of Trade Unions assistant general secretary HENRY FOWLER reports on the final day from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
Capitalism has exploited — and polluted — our natural resources for too long, it’s time we treated our rivers as living beings, writes MIRIUM GAUNTLETT, LIAM SHAW and ROX MIDDLETON
Treating the Clacton by-election as a joke risks reinforcing the Reform leader’s claim to be the victim of an out-of-touch Establishment, argues JOHN McINALLY
MPs and others called for the urgent release of tortured Palestinian doctor, Hussam Abu Safiya, held hostage by Israel and reportedly near death, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
IN the Spending Review, the Tories made it clear how they are going to respond to the worst recession in 300 years — by paying for it on the backs of the working class.
The government’s announcements amounted to a new era of class war, with a real-terms pay cut for millions of public-sector workers, the benefits of millions — largely sick and disabled people — to rise by just 37p a week, promises about increasing the minimum wage abandoned and deep cuts to many areas of public services planned.
Hundreds of thousands have already lost their jobs, with young people hit hardest — but it’s going to get a lot worse unless we succeed in the fight of our lives.
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