As food and fuel run out, Gaza’s doctors appeal to the world to end the ‘genocide of children,’ reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The trade union ‘angels’ putting Great Yarmouth’s most vulnerable back on their feet
BEN CHACKO meets the activists holding a Norfolk community together
Left to write: Volunteers Clare, Ivan, Paula (left of sign), client Janine and volunteer Alison (right of sign)
While Trump threatens to send Haitian gang leaders to El Salvador's terror prison, DANNY SHAW reveals how these paramilitary groups are merely symptoms of US-backed neocolonial rule — the real terrorists are the CIA and international actors arming desperate youth to traumatise an unarmed population
Having endured 14 years of Tory austerity followed by Starmerite cuts, young voters are desperate for change — but Anas Sarwar’s refusal to differentiate from Westminster means Scottish Labour risks electoral catastrophe, writes LAUREN HARPER
Mark Harvey pays tribute to a veteran of the days when the London building trade was a hotbed of working-class struggle, a legendary trade unionist, communist and poet
Rather than hoping for the emergence of some new ‘party of the left,’ EMMA DENT COAD sees a broad alliance of local parties and community groups as a way of reviving democratic progressive politics
ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians
The obfuscation of Nazism’s capitalist roots has seen imperialism redeploy fascism again and again — from the killing fields of Guatemala to the war in Ukraine, writes PAWEL WARGAN
IF GREAT YARMOUTH Trades Council’s low pay campaign illustrates the work of local trade unionists in fighting poverty pay, the Unemployed Workers Centre shows the lengths they go to support those even less fortunate.
It’s run out of the back room of a community centre operated by Manuel Mendonca, who hosts everything from Muslim and Christian prayer groups to free online IT courses and language tutoring.
His centre, funded on a shoestring from selling coffee and home-made snacks at rock-bottom prices and from his wife’s hairdressing business, is a safe space for anyone who needs one: “You need it? You can have it.”
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