MBDA’s Alabama factory makes components for Boeing’s GBU-39 bombs used to kill civilians in Gaza. Its profits flow through Stevenage to Paris — and it is one of the British government’s favourite firms, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES
The Greens and the wider left
The Green Party saw an impressive resurgence at the latest local election polls in England – but the future direction the party takes, whether to the left or the right, remains to be seen, says NICK WRIGHT
Carla Denyer, co-leader of the Green Party, (left) and Kat Belfield, 33, gastroenterology registrar and BMA rep, (second right) join striking NHS junior doctors on the picket line outside Bristol Royal Infirmary, April 11, 2023
President Maduro mobilises the 4.5 million-strong Bolivarian National Militia in response to US ‘threats’, vowing to defend the country’s sovereignty and independence, DEVIN B MARTINEZ reports
Washington plays innocent bystander while pouring weapons and intelligence into Ukraine, just as it enables the Gaza genocide — but every US escalation leaves Ukraine weaker than the neutrality deal rejected in 2022, argue MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES
For those in the West, hunger is often just the familiar feeling of a growling stomach between meals — in Gaza, it has become a strategic weapon of slow, systematic and deadly destruction, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
After almost two decades of rule by the Movement Toward Socialism, once led by Evo Morales, right-wing parties have emerged in the lead after the first round of elections on August 17 and are now in control of the legislature, reports PABLO MERIGUET
DAVID MATTHEWS looks at what a collective future for welfare might have in store for us
LABOUR won the English local elections. Wins were mainly in urban settings and in places where backsliding over Jeremy Corbyn’s pledge to honour the referendum result had weakened the Labour vote.
The Tory media management strategy fell apart when the 1,000-seat reduction they trailed — in the expectation that their losses might be less — itself proved to be too low. For the first time this century Labour is now the largest party in local government.
Now the interesting bit.
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