To defend Puerto Rico’s right to peace is to defend Venezuela’s right to exist, argues MICHELLE ELLNER
On the degradation of civic vision
While revisiting his old postie haunts of Harhill, MATT KERR is reminded that Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan did build, post-WWII, something that has stood the test of time. Very little else has, if we are honest
STOOD THE TEST OF TIME: Semi-detached council houses on Fillingfir Drive, Moor Grange, Leeds, West Yorkshire
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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
MAYBE the events of the last fortnight in Scottish politics may seem like they have proven Harold Wilson’s adage that “a week is a long time in politics” true, maybe not.
One thing is for certain, if a week is a long time in politics, 25 years seems like an eternity.
Around a quarter of a century ago, I was finding my feet as a postie in Govan. Like all the newbies before me, I spent the first few months on walks that the old hands avoided; four-storey tenements, the mankiest closes, or regularly deluged with bulk mailings.
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