Green Party deputy leader MOTHIN ALI, who will speak at the International Anti-War Conference in London on June 20, says Britain needs to rethink its priorities – and its allies
ANYONE who imagines that the EU governments have an untainted history of humanitarianism should take a sharp look at what is happening on the Greek island of Chios, whose eastern shore is just a few miles away from that of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey.
Last month almost 4,000 refugees were reported to be confined to squalid official camps in dismal and unsafe conditions on this beautiful and mountainous island. Each week more join them.
Refugees from the Syrian war, but from elsewhere too, have been arriving for years by sea from Turkey, often on rubber dinghies after paying people-smugglers dearly for the privilege of dangerous travel.
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
The catastrophe unfolding in Gaza – where Palestinians are freezing to death in tents – is not a natural disaster but a calculated outcome of Israel’s ongoing blockade, aid restrictions and continued violence, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Britain’s proud asylum history, from sheltering the Kindertransport escaping Hitler to Basque children fleeing fascist Spain, required tireless campaigning against persistent opposition — and it’s up to all of us to do our part today, writes SABINA PRICE
ALEX HALL follows the battered fortunes of Syria, a multi-ethnic country caught in the crossfire of competing imperialist interests


