A recent Financial Times column on the Iran war exemplifies how the Western elite worldview is more concerned with strategy and power than legality or human life, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Labour, war and opposition
Socialist historian KEITH FLETT looks at the Labour Party’s inconsistent attitude to war over the last century, and what we can do to shape it
STEVE BISHOP considers the prospects for a settlement of the conflict and how the demands of both sides are being viewed
The PM is drawing cautious distance from Donald Trump over Iran – but history suggests Britain’s support may run deeper than it appears, just as it did during the Vietnam war, says KEITH FLETT
Years of austerity and political failure have left classrooms overcrowded and staff overstretched – now educators are organising across roles to demand change, says ED HARLOW
While US restrictions tighten economic and social pressures on Cuba, international allies and grassroots campaigns are stepping in to support the island’s resilience, writes BERNARD REGAN, secretary of Cuba Solidarity Campaign
Labour’s approach to Scotland reveals a long-running tension between rhetoric and reality, warns PAULINE BRYAN
THE current Labour Party leadership has reached a new low in its backing for a siege of Gaza — quite against international law and UN policy — and the old-fashioned sabre-rattling of sending navy gunboats to support an Israeli government that is almost certainly better-armed than Britain.
The disgrace is not just in the support for Israel’s actions, but also the lack of opposition and dissent at the top in the Labour Party and the unions.
The international conventions that Labour is currently ignoring were the product of a post-1945 era where the framework for a new world order was laid out, including policies on refugees, acceptable behaviour in war, and the creation of the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
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