To defend Puerto Rico’s right to peace is to defend Venezuela’s right to exist, argues MICHELLE ELLNER
Global unions’ mission pledges support for Palestinian statehood
TIM DAWSON reports from a trade unionists’ solidarity visit to Palestine, where hope for peace, despite the horrors of the conflict, remains strong
Israeli forces remove a body of a man killed during an Israeli military operation in the West Bank town of Qabatiya, Thursday, June 13, 2024
Despite the apocalyptic destruction RAMZY BAROUD points to Gaza’s triumph of spirit against the architecture of genocide
We are demanding action from our politicians to deliver justice, fairness and decency throughout our communities – join us, says ROZ FOYER
After NGOs and the EU, UN condemns Germany’s crackdown on Palestine Solidarity, writes LEON WYSTRYCHOWSKI
It’s not just the Starmer regime: the workers of Britain have always faced legal affronts on their right to assemble and dissent, and the Labour Party especially has meddled with our freedoms from its earliest days, writes KEITH FLETT
Once again Tower Hamlets is being targeted by anti-Islam campaigners, this time a revamped and radicalised version of Ukip — the far-right event is now banned by the police, but we’ll be assembling this Saturday to make sure they stay away, says JAYDEE SEAFORTH
HISTORY crowds in as you approach the Allenby crossing. It spans the Jordan river, linking the Kingdom of Jordan with the occupied West Bank.
Suspended across domed concrete abutments, it resembles a spacecraft marooned in the desert. The Dead Sea is close by, and Jericho (possibly the world’s oldest city) is the nearest settlement. It is not remnants of Bible times that are most striking, however, but marks of the last century.
The crossing takes its name from General Edmund Allenby. As imperial governor, he built a predecessor structure in 1922. Zionist insurgents destroyed that crossing in 1948’s “night of the bridges,” as they attacked strategic resources and started to drive Palestinians from large parts of what was then a British protectorate.
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