Danni Perry’s flag display at the Royal Opera House sparked 182 performers to sign a solidarity letter that cancelled the Tel Aviv Tosca production, while Leonardo DiCaprio invests in Tel Aviv hotels, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The terrible toll of war
With increasingly sophisticated technology in today’s world of warfare, the burden of death and injury falls on civilians, writes LINDSEY GERMAN
Refugees from Afghanistan wait to be processed after arriving on a evacuation flight at Heathrow Airport
YANA PETTICREW explains what’s behind the strike and how the entire sector rests on super-exploiting an unorganised workforce
STEPHEN ARNELL casts a critical eye over the sudden rash of challenges to the two-party system on both sides of the Atlantic, noting that today’s performative populist politics sadly lacks Roosevelt’s progressive ‘Bull Moose’ vision of the early 20th century
BILL KIDD MSP says increasing Britain’s nuclear arsenal at this time is dangerous and expensive folly
ROGER McKENZIE asks whether the US’s shift to targeting everyone at once will instil greater co-operation among rising powers
WHAT a year this has been for refugees. Suffering all the misery of displacement, illegal travel, state brutality and discrimination, and demonised by right-wing politicians and media across the world, they are finding the borders of the richest countries closed.
The callous disregard for their fate displayed by governments has been formalised in a series of laws and directives which further endanger their lives, preventing safe passage at sea and encouraging those who might be expected to show some humanity to their plight to instead demonise them.
The death of 27 refugees crossing the Channel in a small dinghy was a crime facilitated by governments who all pander to the right in scapegoating refugees.
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From Storm Shadow missiles hitting Russia to support for the endless Gaza slaughter, the new Labour government has continued the years of Tory warmongering. The peace movement faces a crucial year ahead, writes LINDSEY GERMAN
After a year of vibrant Palestine protests, LINDSEY GERMAN calls all campaigners to this weekend’s mass meeting of the anti-war movement in London
The task of the anti-war movement is to prevent Labour taking us deeper into the abyss of war – and it’s a task that’s more urgent than ever, says LINDSEY GERMAN of Stop the War
From Middle East escalation to Nato’s Russia proxy war, we face the consequences of decades of destructive interventions by the US and its allies, writes LINDSEY GERMAN
