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Following the defeats of Corbyn and Sanders, leadership of the socialist movement shifts to the streets
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
As tensions escalate over Iran, CAROL MOCHAN MSP argues that Britain must finally learn from the disastrous legacy of Iraq and choose diplomacy over another catastrophic conflict
While Wes Streeting claims Britain lacks a growth strategy, his own NHS plans reveal one – turning the health service’s vast troves of patient data into a commercial asset for tech giants, investors and private healthcare firms, says HELEN MERCER
The mass killing of Iranian schoolgirls should have dominated global headlines. Instead it became another example of how civilians — especially women and children — are targeted in war, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
IF ANYONE thought the resignation of Jeremy Corbyn would see an end to the witch hunt of left Labour members, the evidence of the last few months shows the opposite is happening. If anything, it is actually intensifying.
That is why earlier this week I relaunched the Left Legal Fighting Fund (LLFF). It was originally established last December with legal costs I won from the Labour Party after the High Court ruled my suspension from the party was unlawful.
I took this legal action because there had been a clear abuse of process by an obviously biased bureaucracy. But I was only able to take this action thanks to the incredible solidarity of grassroots members from all over the country.
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