The proxy war in Ukraine is heading to a denouement with the US and Russia dividing the spoils while the European powers stand bewildered by events they have been wilfully blind to, says KEVIN OVENDEN
Equity in buoyant mood
PAUL W FLEMING reports on the progress made by the 93-year-old union
One can only imagine what would happen if 2.2 million Palestinian refugees were pushed into Jordan, Egypt and other Arab countries, per Trump’s proposal, writes RAMZY BAROUD
This is the most anti-migrant government in decades, argues RAVISHAAN RAHEL MUTHIAH
VICTOR GROSSMAN reports, with a little chuckle, on how US readiness to work with Russia, not just on peace for Ukraine, has thrown a spanner into the German electoral machine
SOLOMON HUGHES probes the finances of a phoney ‘charity’ pushing the free schools and academies agenda
Freedom now for former PM Mir-Hossein Mousavi and other political prisoners
VIJAY PRASHAD examines why in 2018 Washington started to take an increasingly belligerent stance towards ‘near peer rivals’ – Russa and China – with far-reaching geopolitical effects
THERE are few things I’m more proud of than being general secretary of Equity, but one of them may be being a Brummie.
The Workshop of the World may well be renowned as the birthplace of industry, a municipal model, and modern suffrage but the City of A Thousand Trades and the region of which it is the capital are also crucibles of creativity.
Equity’s Midlands Region includes the birthplaces of Byron, Bhangra, and Black Sabbath. There’s no Shakespeare, no Julie Walters and no Benjamin Zephaniah without the Heart of England.
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