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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May Day is ours
The politics of the workers is the politics of hope – and May Day reminds us of our task to turn hopes into reality, writes GMB leader GARY SMITH
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
MAY DAY is ours. It celebrates all those things — work, the dignity of labour, the spirit of collective action, trade union unity and internationalist solidarity — that are nowadays rarely discussed and which run in a direct counter-current to the dominant values of a consumer society and a neoliberal economy.
It is important because it symbolises hope, as each fresh spring brings with it renewal, growth and the promise of a future harvest.
And hope remains both the vital essence of our movement and the key component in the message of organised labour to peoples across the globe.
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