As the Stop the War Coalition holds its annual conference, ANDREW MURRAY warns that Britain’s alignment with US foreign policy is fuelling global instability and diverting billions from welfare, wages and public services
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Is Palestine the end of the road for the Labour Party?
The awful events in the Middle East have shown Starmer and his acolytes in their true colours – and it is not a pretty sight, says BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer on stage speaking during the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, October 11, 2023
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the tension between treating children as vulnerable dependants and recognising them as citizens with rights
The tightening of protest rights reflects a broader shift toward repression in Britain’s strained liberal democracy. Socialists and trade unionists must be ready to resist further attacks on our freedoms, warns JOHN McINALLY
Until ministers stop deferring to the market and start drawing hard lines, the public will remain at the mercy of private power, says MATT KERR
As the US intensifies its economic and political pressure it is now vitally important to demand the British government intervene to end US aggression, writes GEOFF BOTTOMS
SEVIM DAGDELEN argues that a legal framework exists for a closure of US and Nato military base in Ramstein
WHILE it may be too early to ascertain how much damage has been done to the Labour Party, Keir Starmer’s obsequiousness to Israel’s apartheid state has undoubtedly cost it a great deal of goodwill, particularly among those Muslim communities that would normally be inclined to offer it unqualified support.
Already we are witnessing a steady stream of councillors resigning the Labour whip in protest against Starmer’s refusal to condemn atrocities committed by the occupiers of Palestine and because of the appalling comments made by the likes of Emily Thornberry and David Lammy as they toured the TV studios in order to give unqualified backing to the genocidal Netanyahu regime and Israel’s “right to defend itself.”
There is, of course, nothing new in the Parliamentary Labour Party’s connivance with the global forces of reaction, be they in or out of government.
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