TUC president and POA leader STEVE GILLAN speaks to Ben Chacko on the eve of Congress 2026
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Standing strong in solidarity
Let’s press forward together in 2021 for freedom, justice and equality for Palestinians, writes BEN JAMAL
MURDER AFORETHOUGHT: The funeral - in al-Mughair village near the West Bank city of Ramallah on December 5, 2020 - of 13-year-old Ali Abu Alia shot dead by Israeli military forces during clashes with a stone-throwing Palestinains
DOUG NICHOLLS welcomes a turning point at this year’s Congress, where many motions call for a co-ordinated plan to revive British industry, a perspective outlined in his new book
HOPE VIRGO of campaign Dump the Scales warns MPs voting today they should be alert to the threat legalised assisted death poses to people with eating disorders
The Together Alliance is hosting two summits, North and South, to build power and plan action against the scourge of racism peddled by the right. DANIEL KEBEDE urges mass participation
The drift toward militarisation in Europe is not inevitable, left-wing and peace movements can preserve sovereignty and prevent war, says DÁIRE HUGHES MP
Whatever differences exist among international sympathisers of the Bolivarian revolution about its current trajectory, they should unite against the imperialist power that is the source of an enforced retreat, argues ROGER D HARRIS
Trade unions need to step up and force a turn in the policies of the labour movement to effectively confront the far-right threat, argues NICK WRIGHT
NOT many of us will want to give 2020 a backward glance as we move into the new year, with renewed hope of a better future.
For Palestinians, 2020 was marked not just by the fight against the ravages of Covid-19 but against the attempts by Israel, supported by Donald Trump and authoritarian Arab states, to obliterate their cause entirely.
The sketch of the deal Trump laid out when he moved the US embassy to Jerusalem in 2018 was inked in full — No capital in Jerusalem, Israel given the green light to proceed with the annexation of huge swathes of the West Bank, leaving the Palestinians with a series of disconnected Bantustans.
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