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
Palestine champions honoured with Solidarity Iftar
Journalists, campaign groups and protest leaders received recognition from the Muslim community for their courage in standing against genocide amid growing police repression and media smears, reports BEN CHACKO
Muslim Association of Britain president Anas Altikriti gives an award to Jewish Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos
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
PALESTINE solidarity champions were honoured with special awards by the Muslim Association of Britain at a Ramadan iftar on Sunday evening.
The In Faith and Solidarity: Honouring our Movement iftar brought together an audience of multiple faiths and none to hear speeches and prayers for Palestine before breaking the Ramadan fast together.
Among those honoured was Jewish Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos, who said his regular presence among the Jewish bloc on Palestine demos was an important way of demonstrating that they are not the “hate marches” depicted in Establishment media and were a welcoming space for Jews.
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