ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians
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HS2: the great property robbery
The stifling power of property rights blocks the track to modernisation in Britain, writes ANDREW MURRAY
A train passes the HS2 construction site in Euston, London
The obfuscation of Nazism’s capitalist roots has seen imperialism redeploy fascism again and again — from the killing fields of Guatemala to the war in Ukraine, writes PAWEL WARGAN
From Workers’ Memorial Day to May Day rallies, TOM MORRISON examines the real challenges facing the labour movement as Reform UK’s glossy literature exploits legitimate grievances in traditional left strongholds
Calls have been made for the return to Venezuela of a two-year-old girl currently being held in the US, after being separated from her family by immigration officials, reports SUSAN GREY
In the first of two articles, DANIEL POWELL investigates the causal aspects of the Russo-Ukrainian war as Britain commemorates 80 years since VE Day
CONTEMPLATING the sad stump of HS2 — as this is written the cancellation of its remaining northern leg looks inevitable — I recall a conversation I had with the great Marxist economist David Harvey a few years ago.
He was describing how he would visit a district in China and find it more-or-less a wilderness and then return maybe four years later to see it full of factories, housing developments and the most modern infrastructure, including high-speed rail lines.
I asked how the Chinese government was able to accomplish this and his answer stuck with me: “Property rights are not a problem.”
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