Since Ahmad al-Sharaa came to power in Syria, the Damascus government has been given carte blanche to use maximum force against any threat to its continued rule, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
Though cowards flinch
The Red Flag still flies from the Clyde to the Mersey, and whatever the current leaders of the Labour Party say or do, power rests with us, the working class, and our ability to say no to the corruption of the rich, writes MATT KERR
PRINCIPLED: General secretary of the Unite union Sharon Graham votes during a debate on cuts to the winter fuel allowance during the Labour Party conference in Liverpool on Wednesday
Keir Starmer’s hiring Tim Allan from Tory-led Strand Partners is another illustration of Labour’s corporate-influence world where party differences matter less than business connections, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Britain’s proud asylum history, from sheltering the Kindertransport escaping Hitler to Basque children fleeing fascist Spain, required tireless campaigning against persistent opposition — and it’s up to all of us to do our part today, writes SABINA PRICE
The truth will out: we are here to unveil the full scale of the government’s complicity in genocide and to hold it to account for the monstrous bloodshed in Palestine, writes JEREMY CORBYN
As the Alliance of Sahel States and southern African nations advance pan-African goals, the African Union must listen and learn rather than parroting the Western line on these positive developments, writes ROGER McKENZIE
KEITH BENNETT reflects on witnessing the grand parade in Beijing marking the 80th anniversary of China’s Victory Day, which impressively showcased advanced military technology
ON Wednesday afternoons, dozens of socialists and trade unionists came together to sing a parting hymn, the Red Flag; it is a moment I will treasure for as long as I draw breath.
Our voices carried that anthem into a cloudless sky across the — for once — sunlit moorlands over the Firth of Clyde, as we said goodbye to my father.
It was a gathering of the whole family, some bound by blood, most bound in the struggle of the labour and trade union movement over my dad’s five decades of activism.
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