VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
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Now is the time for us all to hold true, against all the odds
We know we have come a long way and what we have achieved and are now ready for the struggle to ensure further progress argues DIANA HOLLAND
TOGETHERNESS: Unite members employed by Serco at Barts Health NHS Trust protest outside Serco’s presentation of financial results at JP Morgan, in London
Trump’s ‘Peace Council’ is not a peace project, but a war and colonial council that renews Western colonialism, writes SEVIM DAGDELEN
The US attack on Venezuela raises grave threats to Cuba and the region, writes NATASHA HICKMAN of Cuba Solidarity Campaign
Trump’s vision of ‘might is right’ signals the collapse of the postwar order — and a warning of who may be next, warns BOB ORAM
ROGER McKENZIE pays tribute to a communist, internationalist and organiser, who endures, 50 years after his death, not just as a towering artist but as a master teacher of struggle
Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary MA BABY reflects on 2025, tracing how war, imperialism, shrinking democratic spaces and neoliberal restructuring shaped global and Indian politics – pointing towards the urgent task of building a more democratic and just future
This week, hundreds of Unite women, black & Asian ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBT+ delegates are coming together in Blackpool for the four Unite national equalities conferences.
These union reps who make such a difference in their workplaces, industries and communities are debating and agreeing Unite’s equality priorities.
Austerity cuts, EU exit negotiations, stress and pressure from automation and digitalisation, privatisation and subcontracting are all being viewed through a powerful equality lens and debates include experience from the workplace across 20 industrial sectors in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland as we set a positive agenda to “take action for equality now!”
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Once among the most progressive in the Middle East, Iraq’s legal protections for women face systematic dismantling under conservative religious and political pressures, reports SALMA SAADAWI of the Iraqi Women’s League