While international actors discuss governance and reconstruction, Netanyahu has made it clear that Israel has no intention of ending its military occupation, says RAMZY BAROUD
Why we are fighting back against Boris Johnson’s smash-and-grab raid
This is not just a struggle for democracy — it is for a society that works for the 99 per cent, writes RICHARD BURGON MP
NICK WRIGHT continues his series analysing the trends in European politics
We have the alternative economics, histories of our struggles and the confidence to change the world
General Federation of Trade Unions assistant general secretary HENRY FOWLER reports on the final day from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
Capitalism has exploited — and polluted — our natural resources for too long, it’s time we treated our rivers as living beings, writes MIRIUM GAUNTLETT, LIAM SHAW and ROX MIDDLETON
Treating the Clacton by-election as a joke risks reinforcing the Reform leader’s claim to be the victim of an out-of-touch Establishment, argues JOHN McINALLY
MPs and others called for the urgent release of tortured Palestinian doctor, Hussam Abu Safiya, held hostage by Israel and reportedly near death, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
OUR democratic rights have been hard fought for. From those killed 200 years ago at the Peterloo Massacre after demanding universal suffrage to the inspiring activists who secured women the vote a century ago and the Chartists to whom our labour movement owes so much, our democratic rights have been wrested from the ruling elite by mass movements.
But the struggle for democracy has never been fought in a vacuum. It has always been linked to the wider battle for social justice. And that’s true today too.
Those protesting at Peterloo were also opposing the biting poverty they faced as the infamous Corn Laws that had left them with poverty wages and without enough bread to live on.
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