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
The virus doesn’t know it’s Christmas
The government is ignoring the advice of the medical community by lifting restrictions over Christmas and forcing schools to remain open, warns HANK ROBERTS
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
AT a government briefing last week Health Secretary Matt Hancock, after stating that the level of coronavirus infections was “highest in secondary-aged pupils,” went on to say: “We need to do everything we can to stop the spread among school-aged children.”
Presumably further school closures is not a part of doing “everything we can to stop the spread.”
Under threat of legal action, schools are forced to stay fully open instead of going to online learning.
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