As Colombia approaches presidential elections next year, the US decision to decertify the country in the war on drugs plays into the hands of its allies on the political right, writes NICK MacWILLIAM
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The No Ceasefire, No Vote movement is growing rapidly
Councillor LOTTE COLLETT is part of a nationwide wave of resignations over Labour’s betrayals of its members and principles — and that wave is now forming into an organised network with two major conferences
DRAWING THE LINE: Councillor Lotte Collett, pictured speaking
The move against alleged PKK members that sparked outrage as a community centre in north London was raided last year has now come to trial, writes TONY BURKE, but in the meantime, the peace process abroad has changed the situation almost entirely
A new report points a way to overcome complacent framing of climate issues, ‘by sparking a wider public reckoning with climate realities,’ and reconnecting with working-class people. IAN SINCLAIR reports
We cannot understand today’s world without understanding the rise of China – and we cannot understand China without understanding how it was shaped by the second world war, writes JENNY CLEGG
NICK WRIGHT reports from Italy, where 80 cities saw Gaza strikes as unions paralysed transport and massive crowds clashed with police in Milan — but France is also kicking off, and Westminster, in a very different way, is facing a crisis of legitimacy too
Escalating anti-China rhetoric from the West has a clear purpose – to manufacture consent for the new cold war, and potentially a hot one, argues CARLOS MARTINEZ
ONE of the most remarkable reactions to Labour’s twisting and turning over its position on Israel’s savage assault on Gaza has been the defection of local councillors away from Labour to sit as independents.
Perhaps a hundred or so councillors have left, and in some cases have cost Labour control of the council — such as in Hastings, Oxford and Burnley.
Labour shows an apparent indifference to losing councillors and councils, some in parliamentary seats covering the former mill towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire that must be won back for it to form the next government.
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LOTTE COLLETT welcomes the arrival of a new party for the left, a vehicle for councils to finally fight for progressive policies on housing, green spaces and public facilities, rather than administering cuts and misery from central government
With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
