ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians
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What next after the failure of Cop26?
There can be no excuses — we have to shut down the fossil fuel industry, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
The obfuscation of Nazism’s capitalist roots has seen imperialism redeploy fascism again and again — from the killing fields of Guatemala to the war in Ukraine, writes PAWEL WARGAN
From Workers’ Memorial Day to May Day rallies, TOM MORRISON examines the real challenges facing the labour movement as Reform UK’s glossy literature exploits legitimate grievances in traditional left strongholds
Calls have been made for the return to Venezuela of a two-year-old girl currently being held in the US, after being separated from her family by immigration officials, reports SUSAN GREY
In the first of two articles, DANIEL POWELL investigates the causal aspects of the Russo-Ukrainian war as Britain commemorates 80 years since VE Day
DURING Cop26 in Glasgow, we have seen a festival of grandiose speeches and sweeping rhetoric from Western leaders warning of the cataclysmic threat posed by climate change and advocating urgent collective action.
Yet these empty promises have not been backed up with the binding commitments that are required.
The final agreement, which included a shameful watering down of the commitment to phase out coal production, was utterly inadequate to meet the climate crisis at the scale it demands.
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