Gaza’s collective sumud has proven more powerful than one of the world’s best-equipped militaries, but the change in international attitudes isn’t happening fast enough to save a starving population from Western-backed genocide, argues RAMZY BAROUD
Brics: necessary, exciting, but ultimately limited
The need to balance the economic domination of the US has led to a coalition of emerging economies — but politically, it is far less coherent than the G7. That will be a problem, explains ANDREW MURRAY
TACTICAL ALLIANCE: (From left) Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, China’s President Xi Jinping, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the 2023 Brics summit
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
JOHN PERRY, BECCA RENK and ROGER D HARRIS offer a corrective to the idea that Latin America still lags far behind the West on women’s rights by looking at the region’s significant feminist gains now stretching back decades
Danni Perry’s flag display at the Royal Opera House sparked 182 performers to sign a solidarity letter that cancelled the Tel Aviv Tosca production, while Leonardo DiCaprio invests in Tel Aviv hotels, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The summer saw the co-founders of modern communism travelling from Ramsgate to Neuenahr to Scotland in search of good weather, good health and good newspapers in the reading rooms, writes KEITH FLETT
STEPHEN ARNELL casts a critical eye over the sudden rash of challenges to the two-party system on both sides of the Atlantic, noting that today’s performative populist politics sadly lacks Roosevelt’s progressive ‘Bull Moose’ vision of the early 20th century
UNBRIDLED US power has brought endless misery to the world. The post-cold war “unipolar moment” has been marked by bloody wars of aggression and the imposition of neoliberal economics across the globe, with the 2008 crash as its memorial.
The good news is that the power of Washington is passing, albeit too slowly. The military defeats in Iraq and Afghanistan and the banking crisis will be inscribed on its tombstone. The US is a declining power.
Opposition to US imperialism and, by extension, its British helpmate, remains central to progressive politics across the world. Diverse political options can only mature outside its shadow.
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