Climate justice and workers’ rights movements are uniting to make the rich pay for our transition to a green economy, writes assistant general secretary of PCS JOHN MOLONEY, ahead of a major demonstration on September 20
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By July 1918 WWI is resisted with strikes on the home front
Four months before the armistice workers begin to oppose the repression in Britain and the brutal intervention to smother the Soviet Revolution, writes JOHN ELLISON
IMPERIALIST BLUEPRINT: Allied troops parade past
their headquarters in Vladivostok in July 1918
Ben-Gvir’s threat to treat the flotilla as terrorists shows how seriously Israel takes the danger of growing solidarity activism from civil society to its standing on the international stage, writes RAMZY BAROUD
ANYA COOK reports from a Majority conference in Newcastle last weekend featuring Jamie Driscoll and Zarah Sultana
A new report from the Citizens Advice Bureau destroys the government narrative about disabled people ‘choosing’ not to work, showing the £3,000 annual cuts will create a two-tiered system based on claim dates rather than needs, writes DYLAN MURPHY
MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES argue that it is high time for the UN to get its teeth into resolving the insufferable plight of the Palestinian nation
Who you ask and how you ask matter, as does why you are asking — the history of opinion polls shows they are as much about creating opinions as they are about recording them, writes socialist historian KEITH FLETT
July 1918 brought more war along the long line of the Western Front, where one newly wounded British soldier-poet with a record of adventurous bravery and a German forename was Siegfried Sassoon.
He received a head wound from accidental fire from a fellow soldier when returning from a patrol on July 13. Just published was his poetry collection Counter-Attack and Other Poems.
One item included the following verse, which was to become famously symbolic of the war.
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