As tens of thousands return to the streets for the first national Palestine march of 2026, this movement refuses to be sidelined or silenced, says PETER LEARY
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What was behind Starmer’s ‘tough-cop’ clampdown on Saturday’s Palestine protest?
ANDREW MURRAY considers whether the mass arrest of peaceful protesters was an attempt by the PM to appease his right-wing critics following his crackdown on last August’s race rioters — and a dark omen of the tyrannies to come
HEAVY HANDED: (Above) Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell (first from left) and Khalid Abdalla (third from right in the back) at the national march for Palestine on Whitehall in central London last Saturday
If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used
One of Canada’s most revered politicians is a native of Falkirk but is relatively unknown in his original homeland. KENNY MacASKILL tells his story
Labour prospects in May elections may be irrevocably damaged by Birmingham Council’s costly refusal to settle the year-long dispute, warns STEVE WRIGHT
HENRY FOWLER and ROB POOLE explain the significance of today’s Megapicket
SATURDAY must have been a good day to be a criminal on the streets of London.
Because a very sizeable chunk of the police was focused on their main mission — upholding the social order, in this case by criminalising protest against a British-supported genocide.
Supported by the British state that is, not by the people. Telling that truth outside the headquarters of the state broadcaster is now a truth that can’t be handled.
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