Lasting peace requires the establishment of justice, the formation of an independent Palestinian state, and respect for the national sovereignty of the Palestinian people, writes NAVID SHOMALI
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Relentless capitalist greed places humanity on the edge of an abyss
Combating climate change is a global emergency. RICHARD HEBBERT looks Britain’s place in this struggle
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The West’s dangerous pesticide dumping in Africa is threatening biodiversity, population health and food sovereignty, argues ROGER McKENZIE
There is no substitute for hard work and on-the-ground organising when it comes to defeating the hard right, argues JOAO FELIX
EDDIE DEMPSEY explains why the RMT is calling for urgent action against assaults on staff and passengers on our public transport system
KELLIE O’DOWD reports on an event to highlight the GMB sisterhood
The Scottish labour movement’s rejection of the Supreme Court ruling on sex-based rights jeopardises not only the credibility of the unions but also poses legal risks and opens the door to far-right reaction, warns JANE McLENACHAN
THIS year has seen the continuing march of climate change and environmental devastation, in the wildfires in southern Europe and the US, the storms across the world, the flooding in Libya and the Indian subcontinent, drought in east Africa, the shrinking of the Antarctic ice field, collapsing Atlantic Ocean circulation, thawing tundra, record temperatures in the oceans and on land.
The human cost is to put millions of lives at risk from extreme temperatures, flooding or failing food production and supply.
Billions will fall out of the “climate niche” in which humanity has lived for millennia and those who survive will have no option other than to try to find somewhere else to live.
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Thanks to impressive progress in Britain with wind and solar generation, clean electricity now costs a fraction of the price of gas — yet the current system keeps bills artificially high to protect fossil fuels, writes TOM HARDY
Addressing new climate challenges will require co-ordinated efforts by governments and local authorities for both drought and flood risks — and it’s people power that will be key to getting policy implemented, writes DOUG SPECHT
But Unite warns that Labour has ‘missed a golden opportunity to bring the national grid under public ownership’