The catastrophe unfolding in Gaza – where Palestinians are freezing to death in tents – is not a natural disaster but a calculated outcome of Israel’s ongoing blockade, aid restrictions and continued violence, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Mexico forces Trump to backpedal
Mexico’s unflinching stand has earned praise from across Latin America and the world, writes DAVID RABY
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum
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Evidence suggests Lammy’s proposals would come at a high cost: reduced fairness, diminished trust and greater racial inequality in the criminal justice system, argue TARA LAI QUINLAN and KATHARINA KARCHER
After years of austerity and denial under a new Reform UK council, a failing Send service was pushed into the spotlight by staff, unions and parents — culminating in a £1.3m funding boost and a 50% increase in front-line workers. MARTIN PORTER explains
Trump’s escalation against Venezuela is about more than oil, it is about regaining control over the ‘natural’ zone of influence of the United States at a moment where its hegemony is slipping, argues VIJAY PRASHAD
Trade union leaderships have so far stopped short of the bold industrial action over Gaza seen in Italy and Greece. NATHAN HENNEBRY calls for a re-radicalising of the union movement and rebuilding class power as vital to turning solidarity into action
Held at a last-minute undisclosed venue amid fear of disruption, a Women’s Rights Network event brought together authors and activists, offering a day of debate on feminism’s past, present and future. JADE MIDDLETON reports
DONALD TRUMP’S loud-mouthed threats to all and sundry are enough to cause anxiety and panic around the world, and especially in near neighbours of the declining superpower he is about to inherit from that master of senile hypocrisy, Joe Biden.
Panic and anxiety are precisely what the orange fascist wants to incite.
The recipe worked like a charm with that pathetic excuse for a national leader, PM Justin Trudeau of Canada, whose craven uninvited trip to Mar-a-Lago to plead with Trump not to slap tariffs on his northern satellite led to brutal humiliation, with the CBC (Canada’s BBC) producing a vicious satirical sketch of Trudeau being treated as a servile puppy.
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By taking a firm stance against the ‘Monroe Doctrine Mk II’ President Sheinbaum has won plaudits from across Mexican society, says DAVID RABY