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Mourners gather around the bodies of 8 Red Crescent emergenc
Features / 3 April 2025
3 April 2025
The massacre of Red Crescent and civil defence aid workers has elicited little coverage and no condemnation by major powers — this is the age of lawlessness, warns JOE GILL
The office of Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and
Features / 2 March 2025
2 March 2025
The trio were given a conditional discharge and £600 penalties after painting ‘Stop arming Israel’ on Science Secretary Peter Kyle’s window in frustration at being ignored despite attempts to meet their MP, reports JOE GILL
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Features / 23 January 2025
23 January 2025
JOE GILL hazards a guess: Musk’s salute was a message to all of the world’s far-right legions: now is our time
Elon Musk speaks at Life Center Church in Harrisburg, Pennsy
Features / 10 January 2025
10 January 2025
From their apartheid-era childhoods to Trump’s inner circle, billionaires Elon Musk and Peter Thiel bring a colonial ‘divide and rule’ mindset to the global far-right project, where the masses turn on each other, writes JOE GILL
CORPORATE OVERLORDS: Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves host an
Features / 3 December 2024
3 December 2024
The left must call out the fact that BlackRock and private billionaires have merged with the state apparatus as our leaders abandon any pretence of there being a ‘free market’ for direct and overt corporate control, writes JOE GILL
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Features / 14 October 2024
14 October 2024
A Tory-lite Labour Party is clearly unpopular with the electorate who are desperate to see actual improvement to Britain’s decimated public services, writes JOE GILL
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Features / 27 August 2024
27 August 2024
Last week’s Democratic National Convention showed Harris is offering more of the same war agenda as Biden, writes JOE GILL
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Features / 5 February 2024
5 February 2024
The analysis of the pioneering anti-colonial writer is still relevant in today’s war in Gaza. The parallels between the Algeria liberation war and the West’s conduct today are many, writes JOE GILL
A woman holds up a white flag to prevent being shot, as Pale
Features / 16 November 2023
16 November 2023
In light of the brutal onslaught on Gaza, we cannot expect Palestinians to accept a two-state solution, writes JOE GILL
NO EXAMPLE: Ramsay MacDonald’s compromises damned Labour
Features / 20 September 2023
20 September 2023
Ramsay Macdonald’s betrayal of 1931 is a warning to Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves not to try and ‘out-orthodox’ the Conservatives on cuts and spending, writes JOE GILL
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Festival Review / 5 July 2023
5 July 2023
JOE GILL wallows in superb evenings of jazz, funk and rap, and only regrets that savouring the music displaced his opportunity to heckle
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Opinion / 8 March 2023
8 March 2023
The Labour leader has backed himself and his allies into a corner with their commitment to scapegoating progressive politics — but going to the right won’t work for long if Labour is elected as an alternative to the Tories, argues JOE GILL