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 cold war is back but the USSR is not
The rise of Russia as a belligerent military power has nothing to do with the goals of the Soviet Union — as far-fetched as it may seem right now, we must stick to anti-war, internationalist principle and oppose both Nato and Putin, writes ANDREW MURRAY
A Ukrainian soldier walks past the wreck of a Russian Su-34 bomber in Kharkiv, Ukraine
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
RUSSIA’S invasion of Ukraine is shocking. But it is not surprising. If any war has been telegraphed for years in advance it is this one.
Your columnist published a book in 1997 predicting that if a third world war were to break out, it would be in and over Ukraine. Such warnings were not taken seriously, since the world was then basking in the triumph of capitalism and its fraudulent promise of a new world order of peace.
Russia was in a position similar to Germany after the 1919 Versailles peace — diminished, in economic turmoil and treated with scorn by the US.
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