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
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Labour needs to be pressed to put council housing at the top of its priorities list
MARTIN WICKS reflects on Labour’s housing policy in the wake of the party’s conference in Liverpool
NICK WRIGHT continues his series analysing the trends in European politics
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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
THE contradiction between Labour’s official housing policies and the more radical aspirations of members and supporters was highlighted at the recent Liverpool conference.
First, the delegates voted to remit the National Policy Forum housing section report.
The only pledge in it was the promise to build one million “genuinely affordable homes” over 10 years, “the majority of which will be social rent.”
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