Councillor SAM WHEELER says there’s a tangible shift in mood on the left in the city whose mayor has recently become PM — but there’s no room for complacency
‘Arming of Israel must stop’
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls Gaza situation a ‘genocide’ that can end if the US flow of weapons to Israel stops, while Republican Tim Walberg calls for Israel to nuke Gaza and ‘get it over quick,’ writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Palestinians inspect a vehicle with the logo of the World Central Kitchen wrecked by an Israeli airstrike in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, April 2, 2024
Communist Party leaders Alex Gordon and Lorraine Douglas deliver vital medicines in trip to besieged socialist island
TUC Cymru is playing a leading role in tackling far-right ideas in the workplace, says LAURA DOEL
A New Delhi press conference in which Sheikh Hasina and her son implied the new order in Bangladesh is a security threat to India has sparked fears she is planning a comeback. SIAM SAROWER JAMIL reports on the fallout
Two months of student unrest have forced out India’s education minister and rattled the BJP regime. Could this be the beginning of the end for Modi, asks Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary MA BABY
MAT COWARD says the heatwave is a testing time for gardeners — but he has some tips
LAST November, Democrat Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, the lone Palestinian-American in the US Congress, was officially censured for publicly expressing support for a ceasefire in Gaza. Of the 234 members of the US House who voted to silence her, 22 were her fellow Democrats.
US public, and even political opinion has since shifted, but firebrand progressive Democrat Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York was still asked by reporters to defend her use of the term “genocide” after remarks she made on the floor of the US House of Representatives last month.
“If you want to know what an unfolding genocide looks like, open your eyes,” said Ocasio-Cortez in a March 22 speech. AOC, as she is universally known, has not yet faced the backlash launched at Tlaib last year.
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