While international attention focuses on ceasefire frameworks, Israel is openly advancing plans for a permanent expansion of its control over Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD
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Chipping Norton doesn’t deserve Lord Greensill
The descendants of some of the legendary Chipping Norton strikers reflect on the events of 1913 and their aftermath, and the bitter irony of having the ‘Chipping Norton set’ and Lord Cameron associated with their town today
Researchers PAUL HOLDEN and JESSICA MURRAY are calling for whistleblowers and documentary records to uncover how Labour Together helped build the parliamentary majority that now dominates the Labour Party
Cuba continues to embody a vision of internationalism that imperialism has never forgiven, argues ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE explains why opposing war is inseparable from defending jobs, wages and public services – and why readers should come to the London Peace Conference on Saturday June 20
As protests erupt over Henry Nowak’s murder, ANDREW MURRAY argues that anger is being exploited to advance a wider racist and anti-immigration agenda
CARLOS MARTINEZ explains the sound case for car manufacturing co-operation with China
SO, David “Dodgy Dave” Cameron, ex-MP for Witney and star of a wonderful cover version of Pulp’s Common People (see bit.ly/CommonDave), is back — this time as “Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton.”
In 1851, the day after a French coup d’etat by which Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, president of the Second Republic (and Napoleon Bonaparte's nephew), proclaimed himself emperor as Napoleon III, Engels declared in a letter to Marx: “It really seems as though old Hegel, in the guise of the World Spirit, were directing history from the grave and, with the greatest conscientiousness, causing everything to be re-enacted twice over, once as grand tragedy and the second time as rotten farce.”
Marx followed by writing an account of the coup, his opening sentence also citing Hegel’s declaration that historic events and personages appear twice, continuing that Hegel forgot to add: “The first time as tragedy, the second as farce.”
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