For those in the West, hunger is often just the familiar feeling of a growling stomach between meals — in Gaza, it has become a strategic weapon of slow, systematic and deadly destruction, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
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Women’s organiser CAROL STAVRIS delivered the main report to the Communist Party’s political committee on July 23, which is summarised in this article
After almost two decades of rule by the Movement Toward Socialism, once led by Evo Morales, right-wing parties have emerged in the lead after the first round of elections on August 17 and are now in control of the legislature, reports PABLO MERIGUET
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Mental health fears push Peers to change law on IPP torture sentences, reports Charley Allan
The ongoing floods in Pakistan could have been largely prevented, writes ABDUL RAHMAN
By escalating deportations and cutting remittances, Trump threatens to destabilise Latin American economies and exacerbate humanitarian crises. Ironically, this might trigger a new wave of migration, write JOHN PERRY and ROGER HARRIS
IN the weeks since the general election, several high-profile events have enabled Prime Minister Keir Starmer to reassure Western imperialism’s ruling circles that there will be “no change” to British foreign policy.
For war not the poor
On July 9-11, at Nato’s 75th anniversary summit in Washington DC, Starmer voiced his enthusiastic support for continuing the war in Ukraine. Visiting Ukraine within 24 hours of his appointment as defence secretary, John Healey confirmed that Britain is supplying long-range Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine.
“That does not preclude them hitting targets in Russia,” he added, “but that must be done by the Ukrainians.”
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