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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
Labour’s investment pledges can revitalise communities
Labour in Scotland has a steep hill to climb, but candidate for Airdrie and Shotts HELEN McFARLANE believes the party’s policies on public services and jobs are winning people over
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
IT IS undeniable that the rightward drift of Labour during the Blair and Brown years alienated many of the party’s core working-class voters, perhaps most of all in Scotland.
The popularity of the SNP, the independence referendum and its aftermath have left people divided along constitutional lines, a problem for the left which is echoed across the UK too, following the EU referendum.
Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters and activists have a huge job ahead of them to reframe the debate in terms of anti-austerity politics, but there are a number of excellent left Labour candidates across Scotland prepared to take on this challenge.
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LOTTE COLLETT welcomes the arrival of a new party for the left, a vehicle for councils to finally fight for progressive policies on housing, green spaces and public facilities, rather than administering cuts and misery from central government