The UK Prime Minister may have the regal touch in northern England, but he’s been wrong-footed on the constitutional challenges posed by the Celtic Alliance of first ministers from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, argues KENNY MacASKILL
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The coming year will likely see Trump return to the White House and a ‘centrist’ Labour return to Parliament – we need to be organised to deal with both, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
NEIRLAY ANDRADE, a member of the Communist Party of Venezuela’s political committee, outlines her party’s position on the crisis facing the country
A look at Taylor Wimpey’s accounts shows why Labour’s market-led housing strategy won’t deliver more, cheaper homes, as promised, says SOLOMON HUGHES
DAVID HORSLEY remembers the remarkable life and death of US black revolutionary George Jackson, whose politically passionate prison letters were published as Soledad Brother
Cuban trade union federation CTC leader OSNAY MIGUEL COLINA speaks to Ben Chacko about life and work under a crippling US siege
A part of the British empire’s network of slavery, today the Caribbean island of Nevis faces a new form of exploitation in the form of crypto-colonialism, CLAUDIA WEBBE writes
Challenges from the unscrupulous misuse of AI to steal actors’ voice and physical likenesses is being met with a firm union response, writes LYNDA ROOKE
IF 2023 was a year to remember, it was largely for the wrong reasons. This is especially true for the Palestinian people or for anyone who favours peace over war, or human development over massacres.
But if we are looking for some grounds for optimism, it seems very likely that the assault on Gaza will end in 2024. If that is not the case then, through a combination of bombardment, starvation and disease, there will be almost nothing left of the Palestinian people.
All those political leaders and parties, mainly in the Nato countries, who oppose a ceasefire now will bear their share of responsibility for this. Of course, there have been forced expulsions and genocides before, unfortunately including many on a much larger scale than Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians now. The Nakba itself was on a much greater scale.
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