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
Why Jeremy Corbyn is right on state aid
Those who disagree with Corbyn and think we can achieve a progressive industrial policy inside the EU are suffering from conservative delusions and a poverty of vision, writes JONATHAN WHITE
Jeremy Corbyn (right) is given a tour by Managing Director David Shoesmith of Pulman Steel
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
READING George Peretz’s recent article in the Guardian (Four reasons Jeremy Corbyn is dead wrong about EU state aid, Guardian December 27 2018), I felt the existential weariness of Phil Connors, waking to find that yet again it’s Groundhog Day.
Peretz was writing in response to Jeremy Corbyn’s Guardian interview on December 21, in which the Labour leader said: ‘If you want to regenerate an economy, as we would want to do in government, then I don’t want to be told by somebody else that we can’t use state aid in order to be able to develop industry in this country.’
Peretz is very exercised about this quote as he believes it “makes no sense.” There has been an extensive and quite illuminating debate about state aid and government policy. You wouldn’t know it from Peretz’s article, which amounts to little more than the incantation of a litany of ageing straw men about the Lexit case.
For example, Peretz claims that the existence of state aid in Scandinavia and Germany proves that there is no problem with having an industrial strategy in the EU.
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