JEREMY CORBYN reports from Hiroshima where he represented CND at the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the city by the US

“I AM 55 years old, and I have never encountered such devastating news as I am receiving now from Palestine,” Palestinian People’s Party guest speaker Dr Firas Sarhan told a fringe meeting at the Communist Party’s 57th Congress yesterday.
“My dad lived through the first Nakba [catastrophe, as the expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes as Israel was established is widely known] and he shared it with us, told us the horrible stories from that time.
“And that makes me think deeply and carefully about whether we are now facing a second Nakba, especially in terms of what’s going on in Gaza.

Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’