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Corbynistas must show resolve after NEC defeat
The unrelenting campaign to smear Corbyn must be met with an unwavering commitment to keeping him as leader, says JOHN HAYLETT
While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE
Unison Scotland’s BRENDA AITCHISON says her union won’t tolerate further cuts to public services
The Danish Communist Party’s Lotte Rortoft-Madsen assesses the fallout from US threats to annex the huge Arctic island
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
AND YET, as legend has Galileo observing defiantly, after being obliged by the Catholic Church to disavow, on pain of death, his heretical theory that the Earth orbits the Sun, “still it turns.”
Jeremy Corbyn has not been condemned to lifelong house arrest for maintaining his position that the “accepted international” definition of anti-semitism — in reality, adopted to an extent by just 31 of the world’s 195 states — is more about tempering criticism of Israel than combating hatred of Jews.
His position as Labour leader has, however, been weakened by the failure of the party national executive committee (NEC) to back his principled stance.
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