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
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Peace and progress in Colombia is for peace worldwide
MICAELA TRACEY-RAMOS reports back from a trade union delegation to Colombia, on the difficulties facing the Petro government in maintaining the peace agenda, and how the business-oriented opposition obstructs pro-worker reforms passing into law
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
Two months into Donald Trump’s second run as president, what can we glean about his policies towards Latin America so far, asks TIM YOUNG, ahead of this Saturday’s Socialism or Barbarism day school in London
Xenophobic hysteria over the statistically insignificant number of small-boat crossings deliberately conceals how capitalism manipulates population flows for profit — if we can explain that, we’ll beat the right, argues NICK WRIGHT
JOGINDER BAINS argues that the infamously cruel and calculated mass murder of Indians blocked into a public square and fired upon by the British Indian Army still faces a reckoning
The annual Fenner Brockway Lecture, hosted by Liberation, was delivered this year by Peter Mertens, Chair of the Workers’ Party of Belgium. STEVE BISHOP reflects on some of the highlights of Mertens’ address
IN JULY, as a Unison member, I took part in a trade union delegation to Colombia organised by the campaign organisation, Justice for Colombia (JFC). The aim was to develop understanding and campaigning on issues around peace, trade union rights, human rights, and social justice in Colombia.
The delegation of seven trade unionists continued longstanding work undertaken in the north-west England region, where JFC North West hosts regular events in solidarity with Colombia.
Colombia has a complicated political history, as decades of armed conflict resulted in one of the world’s longest-running civil wars.
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