ANSELM ELDERGILL looks at the legality of the wars in the Middle East and the means used to fight them. It is said that truth is the first casualty of war, so what is the truth with regard to the legality of America’s and Israel’s wars in Iran, Palestine and Lebanon?
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Freeports are a neoliberal nightmare
The proposals to build deregulated free-trade zones – where workers’ rights and the taxman are kept out – are completely unacceptable, writes Plaid Cymru economy spokesperson LUKE FLETCHER MS
A view of the construction site of Teeside Freeport
PHIL KATZ explains how ‘Cultures in Resistance’ is forging a new cultural manifesto
As world leaders posture and local politicians bore, voters are left with a grim choice: despair, disengage — or start imagining something better, says MATT KERR
CARLOS MARTINEZ reports on China’s role in helping Cuba develop self-sufficiency in renewable energy, which would shield it from the sort of pain Donald Trump is inflicting with his oil blockade
JAYNE FISHER on why the government’s latest amendments to the Crime & Policing Bill, which returns to the Commons on Tuesday, is a serious threat to our freedoms
A surge in futures activity minutes before news of US–Iran talks has led to questions about insider trading and oversight gaps, writes CJ ATKINS
IN the 1980s, it was Coal not Dole — today it’s Enough is Enough. The story of managed decline experienced by working-class communities in Wales hardly needs retelling.
Since Thatcherism wove this fabric of decline into our communities, the term regeneration has cast a very large shadow over Welsh life.
It has by now become part of everyday speech among policy-makers, local councillors, trade unions and social activists, filling pages in newspapers and mouths in conversations.
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