Our Foreign Secretary now condemns Israel in the Commons, yet Britain still supplies weapons and intelligence for its bombing campaigns — as the horror reaches perhaps the final stage, action must finally replace words, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP

DEMOCRAT, internationalist and peace campaigner John Boyd has passed away at the age of 89. Boyd was active in the Connolly Association in the 1970s and was influenced by Desmond Greaves, editor of the Irish Democrat.
Greaves invited Boyd to write about the deindustrialisation of Britain under Tory leader Margaret Thatcher and her then ardent support for this country’s membership of the then Common Market. Boyd went on to contribute a regular column in the Irish Democrat on the subject.
Following the signing of the Maastricht Treaty, which massively centralised power within the European Union in 1992, he helped found the Campaign Against Euro-Federalism (CAEF), which sought to win British labour and trade union opinion to oppose supranational EU integration.

TONY CONWAY assesses the lessons of the 1930s and looks at what is similar, and what is different, about the rise of the far right today

