Gaza’s collective sumud has proven more powerful than one of the world’s best-equipped militaries, but the change in international attitudes isn’t happening fast enough to save a starving population from Western-backed genocide, argues RAMZY BAROUD
Thank you to my old friend, ‘Bick,’ for doing what was right
JEREMY CORBYN pays tribute to the late Rodney Bickerstaffe, former general secretary of Unison
The late Rodney Bickerstaffe
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
JOHN PERRY, BECCA RENK and ROGER D HARRIS offer a corrective to the idea that Latin America still lags far behind the West on women’s rights by looking at the region’s significant feminist gains now stretching back decades
Danni Perry’s flag display at the Royal Opera House sparked 182 performers to sign a solidarity letter that cancelled the Tel Aviv Tosca production, while Leonardo DiCaprio invests in Tel Aviv hotels, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The summer saw the co-founders of modern communism travelling from Ramsgate to Neuenahr to Scotland in search of good weather, good health and good newspapers in the reading rooms, writes KEITH FLETT
STEPHEN ARNELL casts a critical eye over the sudden rash of challenges to the two-party system on both sides of the Atlantic, noting that today’s performative populist politics sadly lacks Roosevelt’s progressive ‘Bull Moose’ vision of the early 20th century
RODNEY BICKERSTAFFE was an outstanding trade unionist, a great socialist and a committed internationalist as well as a warm and fun loving friend.
I have never forgotten speaking at a 100,000-strong rally at the opening of the World Social Forum in Mumbai in 2004.
It was a huge affair with speakers from across the world such as Arundhati Roy, Shirin Ebadi and Mustafa Barghouti, but as I started to speak, I noticed a hand frantically waving at me from the back of the crowd.
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