While international actors discuss governance and reconstruction, Netanyahu has made it clear that Israel has no intention of ending its military occupation, says RAMZY BAROUD
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How the government is gaslighting the public on herd immunity
The Tories are keen to convince us their ‘do very little and let everyone catch it’ approach to Covid-19 never happened — we can't let them succeed, argues IAN SINCLAIR
NICK WRIGHT continues his series analysing the trends in European politics
We have the alternative economics, histories of our struggles and the confidence to change the world
General Federation of Trade Unions assistant general secretary HENRY FOWLER reports on the final day from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
Capitalism has exploited — and polluted — our natural resources for too long, it’s time we treated our rivers as living beings, writes MIRIUM GAUNTLETT, LIAM SHAW and ROX MIDDLETON
Treating the Clacton by-election as a joke risks reinforcing the Reform leader’s claim to be the victim of an out-of-touch Establishment, argues JOHN McINALLY
MPs and others called for the urgent release of tortured Palestinian doctor, Hussam Abu Safiya, held hostage by Israel and reportedly near death, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
“NEVER believe anything until it’s officially denied.” Seldom has Daily Worker journalist Claude Cockburn’s famous dictum been more apt.
Speaking on BBC Any Questions earlier this month, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland said: “I do take issue with this idea that at any stage herd immunity was part of the [government’s] plan. It wasn’t.”
His claim reiterated Matt Hancock’s denial in the Sunday Telegraph on March 15. “Herd immunity is not a part of” the government’s plan to deal with coronavirus, the Health Secretary asserted. “That is a scientific concept, not a goal or a strategy.”
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