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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Britain’s youth need jobs not bombs
MICAELA TRACEY-RAMOS agitates for British youth to engage in the fight for peace and the transfer of investment from armament to social programmes
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
THE Labour Party, despite having a mandate in Parliament to deliver the much-needed change that the working class in this country need, is pursuing an agenda of austerity against the most vulnerable in our society.
One of the first acts of this government was to take away the winter fuel allowance from elderly pensioners and to vote to keep the Tories’ two-child benefit cap.
Just this week, the labour government has announced cuts to disability benefits of up to £5 billion, which will leave the poorest and most vulnerable in society without necessary financial support to live.
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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
Unison has consistently opposed the apartheid system in occupied Palestine, and is now leading the call to end the British state’s military support for Israel as the massacre in Gaza continues, writes MICAELA TRACEY-RAMOS
For the sake of our futures, trade unionists must make the link between austerity at home and never-ending war abroad, writes MICAELA TRACEY-RAMOS
This month the socialist Caribbean island brokered peace between ELN rebels and the Colombian government — so why does the US still call Cuba a ‘sponsor of terrorism,’ asks MICAELA TRACY-RAMOS
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Unison has consistently opposed the apartheid system in occupied Palestine, and is now leading the call to end the British state’s military support for Israel as the massacre in Gaza continues, writes MICAELA TRACEY-RAMOS
The pro-Palestine movement shows that with our creativity and drive, young workers can bridge the gap between single-issue campaigns and the class struggle, writes general secretary of the Young Communist League GEORGINA ANDREWS