The truth will out: we are here to unveil the full scale of the government’s complicity in genocide and to hold it to account for the monstrous bloodshed in Palestine, writes JEREMY CORBYN
Unity is needed against far-right hatred
The Tory government has deliberately whipped up anti-migrant feelings in a cynical attempt to draw attention away from the economic crisis it created, says MARC WADSWORTH
Police officers on the scene outside the Suites Hotel in Knowsley
As the Alliance of Sahel States and southern African nations advance pan-African goals, the African Union must listen and learn rather than parroting the Western line on these positive developments, writes ROGER McKENZIE
KEITH BENNETT reflects on witnessing the grand parade in Beijing marking the 80th anniversary of China’s Victory Day, which impressively showcased advanced military technology
While 69 per cent of Ukrainians want negotiated peace, Western leaders are cynically prolonging the war for their own strategic and economic goals, to the immense detriment of Ukraine and Europe, write BOB ORAM and MAGGIE SIMPSON
Zarah Sultana’s recent brave criticisms of Labour from 2015 to 2020, including Brexit triangulation, IHRA capitulation and insufficient fighting spirit, have ruffled feathers but started an essential discussion, writes ANDREW MURRAY
US baseless accusations of drug trafficking and the outrageous putting of a bounty on a president of a sovereign country do not bode well, reports PABLO MERIGUET
PERHAPS one of South African Nobel peace prize-winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s most famous quotes is: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
With the appalling scenes on TV news this month of far-right thugs using firebombs and setting alight a police van outside a hotel on Merseyside, where refugees they were violently protesting against were cowering inside, never before did the great statesman’s wise words ring truer.
The black-led anti-racist campaign, The Liberation Movement (TLM), of which I’m co-founder, has joined 180 organisations that signed a Together With Refugees-initiated open letter to leaders of all parties in response to the appalling attack on the Suites Hotel in Knowsley, where asylum-seekers are housed.
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