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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Disabled people pay the price of the political crisis in Northern Ireland
Political squabbles over the Protocol or Windsor Framework should not take precedence over the rights of disabled people, whose lives are suffering amid austerity and political neglect, says ELLEN CLIFFORD
Stalemate at Stormont has left disabled people without support
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
NORTHERN IRELAND remains in the midst of a severe political, economic and public finance crisis driven by the ongoing neglect of the Conservative government which continues to fail in its obligations as co-guarantor of the Good Friday Agreement.
Northern Ireland is currently experiencing austerity on overdrive. The Conservative government has failed to adequately fund public services in Northern Ireland resulting in a shortfall of £0.8 billion.
As a result, unelected civil servants are progressing an extreme cuts programme which is shredding public services at an alarming rate with a severe and disproportionate impact on disabled people.
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