RAMZY BAROUD explains why the world can no longer ignore Palestine
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Why has Westminster government austerity been waved through without dissent?
ADAM JOHANNES, a People’s Assembly Wales activist, poses some difficult questions about the reactions to budget cuts in Wales
Graffiti in Port Talbot, Wales
Starmer’s decision to suspend Diane Abbott yet again demonstrates a determination to maintain and propagate a hierarchy of racism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
Deep disillusionment with the Westminster cross-party consensus means rupture with the status quo is on the cards – bringing not only opportunities but also dangers, says NICK WRIGHT
Olive oil remains a vital foundation of food, agriculture and society, storing power in the bonds of solidarity. Though Palestinians are under attack, they continue to press forward write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
VIJAY PRASHAD looks at the web of militias and drug-trafficking gangs that emerged in the Sweida region through the Syrian civil war, and how they relate to recent clashes and Israel’s intervention
JOE ATTARD explains why trade unionists are rallying in solidarity against the recent arrest of political activists in Gilgit-Baltistan, the northernmost region of Kashmir, administered by Pakistan
WE FACE a crisis of political leadership in Wales. A hurricane has passed through the global economic system following the 2008 crash, the pandemic, and now the cost-of-living crisis, but our politicians failed to organise communities, trade unions, and social movements in mass opposition to austerity.
Wales has the highest rates of poverty and low pay in the UK, yet there are Welsh government ministers and senior councillors in Wales who have never ever supported a single strike or ever stood on a picket line with workers fighting for better wages.
Meanwhile there has been a Tory ideological project to shrink the local state to its bare bones by systematically withholding the funding needed to provide the local services considered normal in post-war Britain, so as to force cuts, privatisation and outsourcing.
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