While slashing welfare and public services, Labour’s spring statement delivers a bonanza for death-dealing bomb merchants. We now see the true and terrible face of austerity 2.0, writes MICHAEL BURKE
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Palestine under attack
The situation for the peoples of the Middle East is dire – the time has come to build an international coalition to isolate the warmongers for as long as they continue their violent campaign, argues AQEL TAQAZ
Detailing the deluge of delusion and dishonesty pushed by the pro-war camp, IAN SINCLAIR identifies four key tactics corporate journalists use to confuse audiences and suppress opposition to the proxy war in the east
From ‘moral duty’ to ‘military Keynesianism,’ Labour manipulates language to justify slashing welfare but pouring billions into warfare, condemning communities like Glasgow South West to deeper poverty, writes MATT KERR
With politicians dismissing constituents’ fears of global war, the peace movement must look beyond Parliament to prevent catastrophe, writes TOM MORRISON
The mass movement supporting Palestine represents potential political power that the left must now embrace as central to its strategy, writes HUGH LANNING, ahead of this Saturday’s Socialism or Barbarism day school in London
Health Secretary Wes Streeting taking £53k from Tory-linked recruiter and outsourcer Peter Hearn’s OPD Group is a great example of how Labour’s rich donors shape policies targeting the poor – not their wealth, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
MAT COWARD recalls the communist and pacifist aristocrat whose commitment made a difference in the Spanish civil war, the Blitz and WWII Europe
THE of the war of annihilation against the Palestinian people is “on hold” in the Gaza Strip following the ceasefire there and currently manifests in the violent disbandment by Israel of the refugee camps in Jenin and Tulkarem in the West Bank — and the systematic destruction of everything that exists within them.
This should leave onlookers under no doubt as to the ultimate objective of the Israeli forces.
It was not the removal of the threat of Hamas or the rescue of the hostages they took, as they claimed to the world. It was the forcible displacement of the Palestinians from their homes and the pushing of them into migrating elsewhere in a naked act of ethnic cleansing.
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Dr AQEL TAQAZ of the Palestinian People's Party says global pressure is the only way to end Israel's genocidal assault on the Palestinian people
Protest that could convince world leaders to act in line with world opinion and force peace on Israel is now a matter of life or death for us, writes the Palestinian People’s Party DR AQEL TAQAZ
It did not end with the British Mandate of Palestine and the Balfour Declaration, writes DR AQEL TAQAZ — today Britain is actively supporting Israel’s increasingly rapid erasure of Palestine
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