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
Today's left must learn to think outside the box if we aspire to more than tweak the system
NICK WRIGHT says capitalism cannot deliver a liveable planet or a decent standard of living – but the left is still nowhere near overthrowing it
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
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WHEN Rishi Sunak appointed his ethics adviser to investigate the affairs of Nadhim Zahawi it was with the task of effecting the necessary defenestration of the former Chancellor.
The nonsense about the late discovery of breaches in the ministerial code does not bear examination. The key facts were known weeks ago. Zahawi'’s eventual sacking, far from revealing the hidden inner man of steel behind Sunak'’s expensive smile, shows just how vacillating the premier is and how he is in thrall to his fractious back benches, disloyal Cabinet and Neanderthal party members.
According to the latest opinion poll, just 16 per cent of the British population think that Conservative Party ministers are more interested in serving the public than in personal advancement. The wider significance of Nadhim Zahawi'’s fall is not that he is an exception but that, in the higher reaches of the Conservative Party, he is taken as typical.
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