While international attention focuses on ceasefire frameworks, Israel is openly advancing plans for a permanent expansion of its control over Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD
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Britain doesn’t lack options for the radical decarbonisation of its economy, we just lack the leadership and vision to deliver it, argues ALAN SIMPSON
Researchers PAUL HOLDEN and JESSICA MURRAY are calling for whistleblowers and documentary records to uncover how Labour Together helped build the parliamentary majority that now dominates the Labour Party
Cuba continues to embody a vision of internationalism that imperialism has never forgiven, argues ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE explains why opposing war is inseparable from defending jobs, wages and public services – and why readers should come to the London Peace Conference on Saturday June 20
As protests erupt over Henry Nowak’s murder, ANDREW MURRAY argues that anger is being exploited to advance a wider racist and anti-immigration agenda
CARLOS MARTINEZ explains the sound case for car manufacturing co-operation with China
SOMETIMES there are events that make you rail in anger. Others make you weep. Reading the government’s plethora of “net-zero” policy papers ahead of November’s Cop26 climate conference, I could barely hold back the tears.
It wasn’t their lack of ambition but the absence of a route map (with sufficient resources and urgency) that made the proclamations such a painful read.
We were asked to ignore huge rafts of policies that will make the crisis worse, in exchange for promises that might make it manageable.
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