The basis for 20th-century social democracy in Britain is gone, argues ANDREW MURRAY – but there are measures a Burnham government could take that would break with neoliberalism
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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
TONY BURKE pays tribute to a dedicated trade unionist and true internationalist who helped organise workers from Britain to Bangladesh
NASUWT leader MATT WRACK says schools are crying out for serious investment — and there are other immediate changes a new prime minister could and should enact
Keir Starmer’s resignation speech seemed to be coming from a different universe, or maybe it was just a fanfaronade of falsehoods, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Starmer will be judged on his record, but it would be wrong to view him in isolation from the crisis of the British political establishment, says the COMMUNIST PARTY in its official statement on the PM’s resignation
Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela, while Britain continues its colonial theft of gold, writes MATT WILLGRESS
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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