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Palestinian medics evacuate a wounded youth near Israel's border wall with Gaza
THE Court of Appeal decision to back the government’s right to circumscribe pensions schemes from bearing in mind ethical considerations over where to invest funds is galling but not unexpected.
It reflects advice given over four decades ago when some pension fund trustees sought to avoid investing in companies involved with apartheid South Africa and were told they were bound to maximise fund income in the interests of members.
This was dictated by the fact that British governments, both Tory and Labour, opposed solidarity activists’ efforts to isolate the apartheid state.
In the second of two articles, STEVE BISHOP looks at how the 1979 revolution’s aims are obfuscated to create a picture where the monarchists are the opposition to the theocracy, not the burgeoning workers’ and women’s movement on the streets of Iran
MICAELA TRACEY-RAMOS explains how Britain’s largest union is putting pressure on the British government to recognise the Palestinian state and end its complicity with Israel’s murderous actions
