IAN LAVERY MP says an immediate focus on raising wages and reducing costs must be part of a strategy to show Labour can deliver for workers again
Gypsies and travellers under continual attack
Today is International Holocaust Memorial Day. But have the lessons of the persecution and discrimination which preceded genocide been learned? Not for travelling people. PETER LAZENBY reports
Friedrich Merz’s call for a new Plaza Accord ignores how Washington’s 1985 currency ambush destroyed Japan without fixing US deficits — China, a sovereign socialist state with 1.4 billion consumers, cannot be bullied the same way, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
World Peace Council president PALLAB SENGUPTA assesses the challenges facing the international peace movement and sends greetings to the Liberation AGM
KIERA MARSHALL says there is a gulf between the privileged circles in which most politicians move and the lives of working-class youth in left-behind estates – and as a newly elected Senedd member she’s determined to do something about it
ANGUS REID and ANDREW JOHNSTONE report on an initiative that we must take this summer
At last weekend’s International Conference Against War, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER talks to the Palestinian physician and politician about the struggles ahead to achieve a truly free Palestine
SHOAH is the Hebrew word for the nazi Holocaust which killed six million Jews.
Less well-known is “Samudaripen.” It is the word used by people from the Roma travelling culture for the Holocaust.
Travelling people were the second-largest group slaughtered by the nazis.
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