A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
The fiscal viability of an independent, socialist Wales
DAI MORGAN reviews the pro-independence left-wing think tank Melin Drafod’s economic paper
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
As tensions escalate over Iran, CAROL MOCHAN MSP argues that Britain must finally learn from the disastrous legacy of Iraq and choose diplomacy over another catastrophic conflict
While Wes Streeting claims Britain lacks a growth strategy, his own NHS plans reveal one – turning the health service’s vast troves of patient data into a commercial asset for tech giants, investors and private healthcare firms, says HELEN MERCER
The mass killing of Iranian schoolgirls should have dominated global headlines. Instead it became another example of how civilians — especially women and children — are targeted in war, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
MELIN DRAFOD was established in Wales in 2021; its aim, from its website, is “to support, facilitate and be a critical friend to the grassroots Welsh independence movement.”
Also, it is “not affiliated to any political party but works across parties and groups, focusing on giving detailed attention to the questions raised by the rising support for independence.”
At the beginning of the year, Melin Drafod published Achieving an Independent Wales, a financial discussion paper on the viablity of the Welsh economy if independence were implemented in the near term.
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