Councillor SAM WHEELER says there’s a tangible shift in mood on the left in the city whose mayor has recently become PM — but there’s no room for complacency
Symbolic hunger and the othering of the poor
At a conference on global hunger at Oxford University, DAN GLAZEBROOK realised that our urge as privileged Westerners to ‘do something’ is part of the problem
A shanty town in Mumbai, India
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Communist Party leaders Alex Gordon and Lorraine Douglas deliver vital medicines in trip to besieged socialist island
TUC Cymru is playing a leading role in tackling far-right ideas in the workplace, says LAURA DOEL
A New Delhi press conference in which Sheikh Hasina and her son implied the new order in Bangladesh is a security threat to India has sparked fears she is planning a comeback. SIAM SAROWER JAMIL reports on the fallout
Two months of student unrest have forced out India’s education minister and rattled the BJP regime. Could this be the beginning of the end for Modi, asks Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary MA BABY
MAT COWARD says the heatwave is a testing time for gardeners — but he has some tips
RIGHT now, four countries stand on the verge of famine, the first time any country has been in this position for seven years.
In Yemen, an estimated 130 children die of malnutrition and related illnesses every day — and this looks set to rapidly escalate as the British-backed and Saudi-led coalition attacks the port of Hodeidah, on which the country depends for almost three quarters of its food requirements.
Indeed, the looming famines in all four countries — Yemen, South Sudan, Nigeria and Somalia — can all be traced back to one common cause: Western-backed aggression and destabilisation.
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