RAMZY BAROUD highlights how Israel’s ambassador sought to shut down UN officials documenting sexual violence and abuses against Palestinians
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A story of attrition and defeat
NICK WRIGHT reflects on Owen Jones’s account of the Corbyn years, This Land, The Story of a Movement
The left has become too reliant on persuasion and too detached from the workplaces and communities it seeks to represent, argues NICK TROY
The US-Israeli conflict with Iran has had far-reaching consequences, including a boost to Pakistan’s regional standing, argues ROGER McKENZIE
The recent heatwaves revealed how ill-prepared Britain remains for a hotter future – and how unequal the ability to cope with it has become, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
The drive to strengthen European defence is reshaping relations between France, Germany, Italy and Britain, says NICK WRIGHT
The UN blames gangs for Haiti’s turmoil, while ignoring decades of foreign intervention and support for an unelected government that lie at the heart of the country’s continuing crisis, says RUBEN BRETT
LAST week’s parliamentary debacle was a depressing affair. The Labour opposition failed to oppose a Bill that would permit agents of the imperial state to commit crimes without fear of the consequences that would be visited on Her Majesty’s less privileged subjects.
It illustrated just how far we are from the hopes and expectations that were engendered when, as recently as early last year, Jeremy Corbyn’s party was regularly clocking 40 per cent approval ratings.
Then the prospect of a left-led Labour government seemed more real to our ruling class than it did even to the most optimistic on our side of the class war. And they acted accordingly.
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