The mass movement supporting Palestine represents potential political power that the left must now embrace as central to its strategy, writes HUGH LANNING, ahead of this Saturday’s Socialism or Barbarism day school in London
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Earlier this month the Kiev regime admitted the murder of an opposition politician, so why is it being ‘rewarded’ with EU accession talks as if nothing had happened, asks German Bundestag member SEVIM DAGDELEN
Health Secretary Wes Streeting taking £53k from Tory-linked recruiter and outsourcer Peter Hearn’s OPD Group is a great example of how Labour’s rich donors shape policies targeting the poor – not their wealth, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
MAT COWARD recalls the communist and pacifist aristocrat whose commitment made a difference in the Spanish civil war, the Blitz and WWII Europe
Two months into Donald Trump’s second run as president, what can we glean about his policies towards Latin America so far, asks TIM YOUNG, ahead of this Saturday’s Socialism or Barbarism day school in London
Xenophobic hysteria over the statistically insignificant number of small-boat crossings deliberately conceals how capitalism manipulates population flows for profit — if we can explain that, we’ll beat the right, argues NICK WRIGHT
JOGINDER BAINS argues that the infamously cruel and calculated mass murder of Indians blocked into a public square and fired upon by the British Indian Army still faces a reckoning
The annual Fenner Brockway Lecture, hosted by Liberation, was delivered this year by Peter Mertens, Chair of the Workers’ Party of Belgium. STEVE BISHOP reflects on some of the highlights of Mertens’ address
ON DECEMBER 6, the Ukrainian opposition politician Ilya Kyva was murdered in Moscow. The Ukrainian military intelligence service claimed responsibility for the crime. On December 14, the EU opened accession negotiations with Ukraine.
These two events are not only related in terms of time, but also in terms of substance. So although Ukraine had admitted responsibility for a political murder abroad for the first time little more than a week earlier, the EU heads of state and government considered Ukraine’s prerequisites for democracy and the rule of law to be fulfilled in order to pave the way for Kiev to join the EU.
However, anyone who thinks that these two things are contradictory could be sorely mistaken. The German government’s answer to my question about the murder of Kyva speaks a completely different language.
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In a call for a renewed peace movement, SEVIM DAGDELEN warns that US nuclear weapons deployments in Britain and Germany mark a dangerous return to cold war brinkmanship, carried out without democratic consent
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Bundestag member SEVIM DAGDELEN describes how the Left party’s pro-war stance has created an urgent need for a political force that fights for social justice and peace and pushes back against the catastrophic societal course set by the elites
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SEVIM DAGDELEN writes that the response of Germany to Nicaragua’s charges of aiding and abetting genocide in Gaza has been to downplay its role in supplying arms and question the premise that genocide is already taking place