SOLOMON HUGHES finds the government went along with a US scheme to distract from Israel’s lethal Gaza blockade with an impractical floating pier scheme – though its own officials knew it wouldn’t work
Solidarity with Latin America in a time of coronavirus
ADRIAN WEIR surveys the prospects for a continent under continual threat of imperialist interference and destabilisation
A man wearing a mask against the spread of the coronavirus coughs as he walks in the Cristo del Consuelo neighbourhood of Guayaquil, Ecuador, which has been particularly hard hit by the illness
Historically the framework of that expulsion of Palestinians was predicated on the use of war as a pretext, as opposed to war as a response to Palestinian resistance, writes RAMZY BAROUD
VICTORIA HOLMES salutes the brave stand being taken by Palestine Action hunger-strikers in British prisons, and explains their demands
SYMON HILL looks at Tommy Robinson’s bid to use Christmas to spread division and hate — and reminds us that’s the opposite of Jesus’s message
CAMERON HARRISON and CJ ATKINS analyse the White House’s new strategy in detail
DENNIS BROE says media ownership is not only grossly concentrated in the US, Britain and France – new mergers are advancing the power of the rich to censor the news
OUT of a mainly dreadful filling of the second rank of shadow ministerial posts, I was pleased to see that my local MP, Catherine West, has been appointed a shadow Foreign Office minister responsible for the Americas and Europe.
She now of course has the unenviable task of trying to navigate a path for Labour to deal with the madman across the water.
West has a good record on international issues. She was in lockstep with Jeremy Corbyn on the Chagos Islands and in the past has always met constituents taking part in Palestine Solidarity Campaign-organised parliamentary lobbies on Palestine.
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