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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
Apathy isn’t just political, it’s psychological
The profound damage inflicted by corporate politics on British society’s well-being needs to be thoroughly understood if politics of change are to succeed, writes RABBIL SIKDAR
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
During the morning rush hour in London, bleak and cold and grey, everyone rushes without a second’s thought for anything else other than the job they are enslaved to. There is a competition for space on the trains so no-one misses work they can’t afford to miss. No-one spares a second’s thought for the other person. The Tube during the morning rush hour is a metaphor for dog-eat-dog individualism.
Above the streaming masses of people absorbed in their work, the shadow of skyscrapers loom over people. Locked away in the high rooms are the kind of people insulated from the grey rain, inequality and poverty that envelops millions of ordinary people.
What does politics mean for these people? It’s plausible to imagine very little. Politics is spoken in a different language today, swayed by the lure of corporate ambitions and grounded in fear by that too.
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