Mass mobilisations are forcing governments to seriously consider imposing sanctions and severing ties — even in places like Australia and the Netherlands — despite continued arms shipments to Israel’s war machine, writes RAMZY BAROUD
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Tory policies make this government not fit to govern — we should resist them all
Rather than fighting the ‘culture wars,’ we must focus on resisting every part of the Tory agenda and proposing truly transformative economic polices instead, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
Diane Abbott joins with people assembled in Portland Place in London, in July 2017
What we are learning today is that fascism can come to power even when the working class of almost every capitalist nation is very far from achieving revolution, argues DAVID LETHBRIDGE
TONY BURKE explains how an internationally significant breakthrough for workers’ organisation and recognition against two notoriously anti-union global mega corporations has been finally achieved in Canada
The heroism of the jury who defied prison and starvation conditions secured the absolute right of juries to deliver verdicts based on conscience — a convention which is now under attack, writes MAT COWARD
A Dutch investigation found seven internationally renowned Holocaust and genocide experts, including Israelis, concluded Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide, despite a campaign of denial and disinformation from the US state, writes TERRY HANSEN
The horrors in the Congo have much in common with Gaza’s genocide, most notably the financial and military support of the US, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
THE DEMONSTRATION today is a great opportunity to bring together all the strands of the movement, both long-established and newly emerging, in the fight for a better society and against the policies of this government.
We are united against the Tories. But we should also be clear that we are not fighting the individuals that comprise this government, or even Tory rule. We completely oppose the entire reactionary agenda of this government.
This means opposing it root and branch in terms of all its attacks, coming to the defence of all working people and those suffering discrimination and counterposing progressive policies of our own to the Tories’ extreme right-wing agenda.
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Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
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Our Foreign Secretary now condemns Israel in the Commons, yet Britain still supplies weapons and intelligence for its bombing campaigns — as the horror reaches perhaps the final stage, action must finally replace words, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
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