Channel 4’s Dirty Business shows why private companies cannot be trusted with vital services like water, says PAUL DONOVAN
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Viva Palestina – Latin America’s left stands with Palestine
The region’s left speaks up for Palestine, while the US empire’s stooges in Latin America do as their master says, writes MATT WILLGRESS
A Palestinian child walks with a bicycle by the rubble of a building after it was hit by an Israeli air strike, in Gaza City, October 8, 2023
Washington’s unprecedented capture of the Venezuelan president was meant to demonstrate US power — but instead it has galvanised the Bolivarian movement and exposed the limits of the regime change agenda, argue ROGER D HARRIS and JOHN PERRY
With our ruling class struggling to secure a new vehicle for power and the disintegration of the traditional party system, a volatile new chapter is opening, sharpened by war, austerity and electoral distortion, argues NICK WRIGHT
TONY FOX reports from a commemoration of the legendary Battle of Jarama in which four Stockton-on-Tees volunteers fell
Does widespread and uncontrolled use of AI change our relationship with scientific meaning? Or with each other? ask ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
The biggest strike in global history is a template for our future. The silence tells you all you need to know, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
THIS week, the UN general assembly voted on a motion demanding that “Israel brings to an end without delay its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, which constitutes a wrongful act of a continuing character entailing its international responsibility, and do so no later than 12 months.”
It passed easily, with 124 votes in favour.
Britain shamefully — but predictably — abstained as one of 43 states, while for all of Joe Biden’s crocodile tears of late, the US, which continues to arm Israel to the teeth, voted against, alongside Israel and only 12 other states.
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The US is desperate to stop Honduras’s process of social and democratic change, writes TIM YOUNG
