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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The revolutionary hope of Christmas
We know that Christ was a radical egalitarian from his proclamations in the Bible — but the Christmas myth is itself shot through with class consciousness and faith in an emancipated future for all the oppressed, writes REV TIM YEAGER
TRUE MEANING OF CHRISTMAS: Jesus Cleansing the Temple, painted by Carl Bloch in 1874, depicts the messiah driving money changers and other traders from a place of worship
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
CHRISTMAS time can be so depressing. It brings out some of the worst features of capitalism and rubs them in our faces. You can’t escape, whatever your philosophical or religious belief.
Advertisements spur feelings of guilt if you don’t buy enough of the right kinds of consumer products for the people you love. Creative financing is offered so that lenders can make even more profit.
And it is an environmental disaster: more plastic, cardboard and packaging is produced, carted about, and dumped into landfills or incinerators at Christmas time than at any other time of the year.
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