Mass mobilisations are forcing governments to seriously consider imposing sanctions and severing ties — even in places like Australia and the Netherlands — despite continued arms shipments to Israel’s war machine, writes RAMZY BAROUD
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Truth and reconciliation in Ireland: listen to the victims
The Star publishes a speech delivered this week by DIANE ABBOTT MP on the controversial Northern Ireland Troubles Bill, which offers conditional immunity from prosecution and replaces police investigations with an ‘information recovery body’
Representatives from Relatives for Justice, whose loved ones were murdered during the Troubles, protest outside Downing Street, Westminster, against the UK Government's introduction of controversial legacy legislation as the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill receives its second reading in the House of Commons. Picture date: Tuesday May 24, 2022
What we are learning today is that fascism can come to power even when the working class of almost every capitalist nation is very far from achieving revolution, argues DAVID LETHBRIDGE
TONY BURKE explains how an internationally significant breakthrough for workers’ organisation and recognition against two notoriously anti-union global mega corporations has been finally achieved in Canada
The heroism of the jury who defied prison and starvation conditions secured the absolute right of juries to deliver verdicts based on conscience — a convention which is now under attack, writes MAT COWARD
A Dutch investigation found seven internationally renowned Holocaust and genocide experts, including Israelis, concluded Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide, despite a campaign of denial and disinformation from the US state, writes TERRY HANSEN
The horrors in the Congo have much in common with Gaza’s genocide, most notably the financial and military support of the US, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
THERE are an estimated 3,500 deaths arising from what is known as the Troubles.
More than half of them were civilians. About one third of them were members of the security forces and about one sixth of them were from various paramilitary groups.
Of course the number of people seriously injured is also very high. And the number of lives blighted by the loss of a friend or loved one is far greater.
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