Transparency records reveal senior trade officials held dinners and strategy meetings with the notorious lobbying firm even as controversy over its Epstein links deepened, says SOLOMON HUGHES
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People power vs planetary problems
Protest is having an effect — that’s why the powers that be are cracking down, writes CND general secretary KATE HUDSON ahead of this Sunday's international conference
An XR activist is carried away by the police
Starmer promised a reset after Labour’s dire electoral performance, but the government’s programme still falls far short of the bold action needed, says ANDY McDONALD MP
ANDREW DRAPER reports on the deliberate targeting and torture of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli state
Author Michael Rosen asked people how we confront a takeover by Reform. The Labour Party would do well to listen to the answers rather than shuffle more deckchairs on the Titanic, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
What began as a purported ‘anti-drugs mission’ has evolved into a permanent regional military operation, write ROGER D HARRIS and JOHN PERRY
KEITH FLETT looks at a post-election London
IS IT a taste of things to come? This week the police slapped a Section 14 order on Extinction Rebellion protesters across the whole of London. This is an unprecedented attack on the right to protest and is of grave concern to us all.
The right to protest was hard won and we cannot see it eroded or stripped away by the Johnson government. The police may have served the order but it could not happen without the say-so of this deeply backward and reactionary government.
So this is the time to strengthen, celebrate and defend our movements. The upsurge in activity in recent weeks and months has been a joy to behold. Last month we saw not only the climate strike but the powerful protests at DSEI arms fair, against the trade in death which blights countless lives.
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Trade unionists must raise our voices not only for justice and against occupation, but also to protect our fundamental right to protest, writes LOUISE REGAN, ahead of a not-to-be-missed PSC conference
In an address to the Communist Party’s executive at the weekend international secretary KEVAN NELSON explained why the communists’ watchwords must be Jobs not Bombs and Welfare not Warfare
