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

THE government of the venal, habitually mendacious and priapic Boris Johnson will surely come to be seen as a landmark in the degradation of the British bourgeoisie.
That this old and cunning capitalist class, and its main political party, should come to be led by such a carnivalesque caricature is in itself a sign of crisis. There is nothing in the circumstances that led to his fall that was not already universally understood at his elevation in 2019.
The sober and responsible conduct of public business in the interests of the entrenched establishment was compromised the moment Britain’s Berlusconi was selected to head the Tory Party.

Corbyn and Sultana commit to launching new socialist party

If Labour MPs who rebelled over the welfare reforms expected to be listened to, they shouldn’t have underestimated the vindictiveness of the Starmer regime. But a new left party that might rehome them is yet to be established, writes ANDREW MURRAY

Starmer doubles down on witch hunt by suspending the whip from Diane Abbott