MOLLY QUELL reports on the sanctions placed on International Criminal Court officials by the Trump regime, making it increasingly difficult for the tribunal to conduct even basic tasks

NO-ONE has a crystal ball, so all projections into the future tend to be extrapolations from the recent past. Unfortunately, that would mean 2025 threatens even more war, too little action on climate change, growing poverty and widespread political turmoil.
The main new factor in the world is the election of Donald Trump as US president. His inauguration is in just a few days’ time. But we should remember that the terrors of 2024 did not begin under Trump — he had almost nothing to do with them.
It was the Democrat President Joe Biden who gave the green light to Israeli genocide and who provided both the money and arms for it, along with the wider attack on the region, including the West Bank, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Iran and Yemen.

DIANE ABBOTT MP warns Starmer’s newly declared war on foreigners and scroungers won’t fix housing or services — only class struggle against austerity can do that, and defeat Farage in the process

DIANE ABBOTT looks at the whys and hows of Labour’s spectacular own goal

