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
Global crises demand working-class answers
Working-class perspectives are missing from crucial debates on international diplomacy, climate change and war — and Trump’s return makes it even more important we communists put them across, writes RICHARD HEBBERT
HUNGER AS WEAPON: Residents of Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip in front of a bakery hoping to to get their some bread on November 21 2024
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
WORKERS are looking at the world from Cop29 to Gaza, from the US and Europe to Britain’s streets and the corridors of Whitehall and asking: where do our voices get a hearing?
It’s also an urgent question for communists and progressive activists everywhere as governments — hell-bent on economic growth at any cost — prioritise the interests of monopoly capital over the collective needs of those who elect them. This enables the political right and far right to make gains with their offer of a return to “national greatness,” itself supposedly founded on self-help, a small state and popular consensus.
Looming large over current geopolitical affairs is the US, as the world holds its collective breath in anticipation of Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Why did he win?
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