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Let's speak up for Palestine while we still can
Writing ahead of the Labour and Palestine fringe, MATT WILLGRESS says the continuing occupation and attacks on civilians by Israel must be cause to redouble our own resistance to attacks from the right on the solidarity movement here in Britain
Delegates wave Palestinian flags at the Labour Party's annual conference in 2018
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
When gas company bosses gorged on assets, the GMB union fought back with the help of a 20-stone saddleback sow. MAT COWARD tells the story
JOHN REES looks at why the June 20 international anti-war conference is such a vital initiative
ROGER McKENZIE highlights how health workers in DRC are struggling to contain a deadly Ebola outbreak in a region already suffering conflict, aid cuts and a legacy of imperialist degradation
Associate Professor BUI QUANG TUAN explains how modernisation and growth are helping to unlock new foreign investment in the Vietnamese economy
IN August, Israel’s renewed bombing of Gaza killed 44 Palestinians, including 15 children, in addition to injuring at least 350. This was described by the UN special rapporteur as an act contrary to international law.
As Michelle Bachelet said, “Such attacks must stop,” and international law is clear that “launching an attack which may be expected to incidentally kill or injure civilians, or damage civilian objects, in disproportionate manner to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated, is prohibited.”
Yet Israel does exactly this in Palestine again and again, year after year.
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