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
Labour: the beatings will continue even if morale improves
Despite a healthy poll lead, there are no signs of a let up in internal machinations against the left and the membership at large — that's because party democracy is the last thing Starmer wants if Labour wins power, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer congratulates deputy leader Angela Rayner after her speech during the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool
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
IN the last two weeks, a newly elected member of Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) — the only Jewish one, in fact — was suspended for attending the wrong sort of meeting sometime in the past.
Another NEC member, Nadia Jama, on the completion of her term on that body immediately resigned from the party itself, describing it as “toxic.”
And a delegate to Labour’s conference in Liverpool was apparently suspended for having the temerity to make a dissenting speech concerning the Ukraine war.
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