Mass mobilisations are forcing governments to seriously consider imposing sanctions and severing ties — even in places like Australia and the Netherlands — despite continued arms shipments to Israel’s war machine, writes RAMZY BAROUD

THE recent death of Mark O’Neill, who among many roles in the movement was the Communist Party’s Anti-Austerity Commission convener, has come as a great blow to his party comrades and to the many labour movement activists who knew him and his unrelenting work in the movement.
Mark was also a respected member of the party’s executive until his battle with cancer made it impossible for him to continue.
When I learned of his death from his partner, great love and comrade, Deirdre, my mind went back to a teachers’ tour of Cuba we organised together in 2011 — a tour which I think and hope illustrates important aspects of Mark’s strong communist character and contribution to the working-class movement.

The only way to develop and build a party of a new type that in any way threatens capitalism is at the same time to develop and build the mass movement around it, argues BILL GREENSHIELDS

It would be great to have a better option to vote for in elections, but a coalition of proven working-class organisations built from decades of real struggle offers stronger foundations than patched-together parliamentarianism, writes BILL GREENSHIELDS

BILL GREENSHIELDS invites all and sundry to this years’ Derby Silk Mill Lockout March, Rally and People’s Festival on June 7

BILL GREENSHIELDS urges an intensification of the information offensive against the impact of the spurious discourse peddled by Reform UK