Man-made canals like Panama and Suez face unprecedented challenges from extreme weather patterns and geopolitical tensions that reveal the fragility of our global trade networks, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
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Only through the achievement of the rights of the Palestinian people will a lasting peace be achieved, writes LOUISE REGAN
As climate change makes vast mineral deposits accessible, the island’s 56,000 residents face unprecedented pressure from Trump’s territorial ambitions while struggling to maintain their traditional way of life, writes JOHN GREEN
Student Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest and threatened deportation are terrifying — but the moribund Democrats are still failing to mount any meaningful resistance against the slide toward autocracy, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
From golf and football to Formula One, the kingdom uses unprecedented investments in global sport to divert attention from its persecution of journalists, dissidents and women, write BELLA KATZ and ROGER McKENZIE
With trade wars backfiring, allies resisting military demands, and approval ratings plummeting, Trump’s dangerous pursuit of colonial ambitions threatens to end the ‘American century’ with catastrophic conflict, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
As Britain plans to increase military spending to 2.6 per cent of the GDP while health services face devastating cuts and drug costs soar, working-class Scots urgently need united resistance, argues DREW GILCHRIST
As the government moves to rein in academy freedoms, former darling of conservative education reform Katharine Birbalsingh cries ‘Marxism.’ Education columnist ROBERT POOLE examines how academisation has failed our children while enriching executives and empowering ideologues at the expense of democratic accountability
“IN OUR thousands in our millions we are all Palestinians.”
This is the chant that resonates with many of us and which we have witnessed in action recently. In the last two weeks we have seen huge demonstrations in London with hundreds of thousands taking to the streets to show their solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Last Saturday 300,000 people filled the streets of London and thousands more in cities across Britain and the world to stand in solidarity with the people of Gaza.
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The NEU is pushing for a comprehensive end to arms sales to Israel and support for BDS campaigns as part of broader trade union efforts to pressure the government, writes LOUISE REGAN
LOUISE REGAN of the National Education Union says the Nakba may be begun 75 years ago – but it continues today
Former National Union of Teachers president LOUISE REGAN explains what trade unions are doing in solidarity with the Palestinian people