LINDA PENTZ GUNTER reports from the one of 2,700 protests against the Trump government’s power grabs, on a day when seven million people defied fear-mongering in a outpouring of joy and hope in what might be the biggest protest in US history
Trump and May have put us on the brink of war
The argument that we can’t sit back and that we have to do something is a lie, writes LINDSEY GERMAN. Western powers have been intervening in Syria right from the beginning
ALEX HALL interviews PAUL HOLDEN, whose bombshell book uses leaked documents to expose how the Starmer faction used systematic dishonesty to seize power and reopen the door to the corrupting ecosystem of corporate lobbying and sleaze
Our trust makes 3,200 home visits caring for 227 patients despite 198 Israeli checkpoints around Bethlehem; this compassion which transcends boundaries has lessons for the debate on end-of-life care in Britain too, writes FATHER GEOFF BOTTOMS
There is no chance of defending and renewing an NHS which is still savagely undermined by having to pay mark-ups of up to 23,000 per cent to Big Pharma — let’s take control of pharmaceutical manufacturing and distribution, writes DREW GILCHRIST
The polling is looking good for the left’s choice, writes ERNEST WALKER, but there are farcical electoral oddities that are throwing up dangers to the campaign
Lewisham People’s Assembly organiser BEN WOODWARD reports on uproar in south London as campaigners condemn an ‘undemocratic stitch-up’ after the council waved through redevelopment of a vibrant shopping centre into ‘luxury flats’
THE WORLD stands on the brink of a major escalation of war and the responsibility for this lies with US President Donald Trump and Theresa May.
Trump, who talked only two weeks ago of withdrawing US troops from Syria, now tweets that his missiles are coming.
May, the woman who has no parliamentary majority and is only hanging onto power through alliance with the racist and right-wing DUP, is urging some sort of military action to “punish” the Syrian regime.
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