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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Unite’s retired members are fighting back against TV licence injustice
Ending the state provision of a free licence for all over-75s is a shameful decision by our government and will only add to loneliness and exclusion, writes STEVE TURNER
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
TODAY is the annual UN Day for Older Persons, a day of celebration and recognition for a generation who have given a lifetime of work to build our nations and fought for social and economic justice, peace and human rights.
Here, in a shameful act of callous betrayal of this generation, Boris Johnson’s government is holding firm on its decision to remove funding for a free TV licence for those aged over 75.
Ending the state provision of a free licence for all over-75s, instead forcing its provision onto an already stretched BBC, has led to means testing and the ending of its status as a universal benefit, undermining the social contract reached with our pensioners.
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