The truth will out: we are here to unveil the full scale of the government’s complicity in genocide and to hold it to account for the monstrous bloodshed in Palestine, writes JEREMY CORBYN

STOP THE WAR Cymru is today taking its call for an immediate ceasefire and negotiations in Ukraine to the Welsh Labour Party conference. By publishing and distributing this statement to conference delegates, we hope to put peace back on Labour’s agenda along with the need to pressurise the Westminster government to focus on welfare and not warfare in the interests of the people of Wales and Britain.
Welsh Labour has previously prided itself on having clear red water between Wales and Westminster, and this spirit needs to be revived as a matter of urgency; choosing to advocate for peace rather than fuelling war by pouring more weapons into conflicts would make the “clear red water” statement true again.
With British military aid to Ukraine currently standing at around £8 billion and the government committed to an additional £3bn each year for the foreseeable future, it’s clear that there’s a very different attitude to money for war than there is for relieving poverty at home.



While 69 per cent of Ukrainians want negotiated peace, Western leaders are cynically prolonging the war for their own strategic and economic goals, to the immense detriment of Ukraine and Europe, write BOB ORAM and MAGGIE SIMPSON

In the first half of a two-part article, PETER MERTENS looks at how Nato’s €800 billion ‘Readiness 2030’ plan serves Washington’s pivot to the Pacific, forcing Europeans to dismantle social security and slash pensions to fund it
