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More and more people know why they must back Palestinian rights
Tory attempts to ban ‘boycott, disinvestment and sanctions’ are part of decades of refusing to support international law when it comes to Palestinian rights writes KEN LIVINGSTONE
IMPERIALIST LAND GRAB: These palm plantations in the Jordan Valley are part of an illegal Israeli settlment
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Rebuilding Labour’s working-class roots and organising power is essential if the party is to recover, says MERCEDES VILLALBA
ANDREW MURRAY looks back at a damaging career marked by dishonesty, incompetence and revolting complicity in war crimes
Britain’s historic vote to leave the EU was a rejection of the political Establishment and the strategic direction pursued by Britain’s ruling class since the second world war, writes ALEX GORDON
Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela, while Britain continues its colonial theft of gold, writes MATT WILLGRESS
MARY DAVIS says the centrality of the Jewish community and the Communist Party to anti-fascism in the 1930s is too often overlooked on the left
IN MY autobiography, I recount how while travelling in the 1960s in Algeria — and before I was politically active or a member of the Labour Party — we went to a local Palestine Liberation Centre.
At the time, I did not know that the Palestinians had been driven off their land in the Nakba, or about how many of them then (as they are now) were in refugee camps. This was the first time I heard a different side of the story.
I wasn’t persuaded of the Palestinians’ case at the time — which was totally new to me — but an image that stayed with me, and later helped form my views in support of Palestinian rights as my politics developed, was of a young man telling me his father had gone back to look at the house he’d been forced to leave, faced abuse and been devastated.
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