As Washington and Tel Aviv escalate their assault on Iran, the rhetoric of ‘great power’ politics masks a faltering empire resorting to familiar regime-change tactics, says JOHN McINALLY

With this attack on Iran, Trump and Netanyahu are taking a reckless leap toward escalation. The region is balancing on the brink of a major war that could undermine the global economy and nuclear security, says MARC VANDEPITTE

Hundreds protested against the US-Israel attacks on Iran in Parliament Square on Saturday, fearing a wider conflagration and horrified by the targeting of young schoolchildren, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

Liverpool Trades Council has unveiled a ‘People’s Budget’ to fight £56m cuts and council tax rises. DEAN YOUNG reports

by Henry Fowler, General Strike 100 project co-ordinator

‘Solidarity with the Cuban people’s revolution is our overriding priority,’ international secretary KEVAN NELSON told the Communist Party’s political committee on Wednesday

While the result signals a restless appetite for real change, it also underlines how much organising, beyond the ballot box, is still required to turn protest into lasting transformation, argues DAN ROSS

Labour’s by-election defeat tells a story Scotland has known since 2008. A party that assumes loyalty while offering little more than managed decline will eventually discover that voters always have somewhere else to turn, says MATT KERR

KENNY MacASKILL reminds us of the unprecedented political career of a Scottish miner’s militant son who stayed the course and true to his roots

LUKE FLETCHER outlines Plaid Cymru bold plans for wide-ranging policy consultations with trade unions in Wales

Statement of the World Peace Council

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