Alvaro Uribe is found guilty of witness tampering and procedural fraud, reports NICK MACWILLIAM
Gaza policy highlights our democratic deficit
MICK WHITLEY MP explains why he has put forward an early day motion calling on the Foreign Secretary to make himself accountable to MPs over the appalling brutality in Gaza and for an immediate suspension to arms exports to Israel
UNDER SIEGE: Palestinian medics in Rafah refugee camp treat a girl wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, Tuesday May 7
On the anniversary of the implementation of the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, ROGER McKENZIE warns that the legacy of black enslavement still looms in the Caribbean and beyond
Starmer’s decision to recognise Palestine only as long as Israel continues to massacre its inhabitants has been met with outrage, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The creative imagination is a weapon against barbarism, writes KENNY COYLE, who is a keynote speaker at the Manifesto Press conference, Art in the Age of Degenerative Capitalism, tomorrow at the Marx Memorial Library & Workers School in London
RAMZY BAROUD explains why the world can no longer ignore Palestine
Starmer’s decision to suspend Diane Abbott yet again demonstrates a determination to maintain and propagate a hierarchy of racism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
THE Israeli offensive on Rafah heralds the opening of a new and terrible chapter in what has already become one of the world’s worst man-made humanitarian crises.
Military operations threaten to critically undermine the operation of the Rafah and Karem Abu Salem crossings, essential entry points for the limited amount of aid that’s been allowed to trickle into the Gaza trip.
Rafah’s main healthcare facility, the Abu Yousuf Najjar hospital, has been forced to close and the city’s entire healthcare system is now at the point of collapse. Over 300,000 civilians are thought to have fled an area once designated as a “safe zone.”
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