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

HOWEVER it ultimately ends, the national railway strike led by the RMT has proved a social and political landmark.
Its significance does not lie solely in stopping the trains running for three days. The privatised industry can do that unaided, and with great loss of life, as anyone who remembers the Hatfield disaster of 2000 can attest.
No, its importance is as a reassertion of working-class authority and values, a reassertion both practical and symbolic.

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