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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
The new London Poverty Profile is a wake-up call
Residents of the capital have been forced to watch financial capital swirl above their heads, never trickling down with lessons for Labour across the whole of Britain, says NATHAN AKEHURST
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
I HAVE now lived at all four ends of London. Near the end of the Holloway Road, in Jeremy Corbyn’s north London constituency, which sweeps through a borough where two in five children are in poverty.
Kensington and Chelsea to the west, where life expectancy can drop a decade over the course of a zebra crossing. In the East End, where Canary Wharf bankers overlook condemned housing estates. And Lambeth in the south, a short walk from Parliament yet synonymous with deprivation since the days of Oliver Twist.
All are teeming with life and culture and community and a defiant, driven spirit. All are so much more than their grim data, which is exhibited in Trust for London’s newest London poverty profile this week. And yet that data gives a forensic portrait of how crippled our city is.
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