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The weapons that drive immigration
New analysis has made the link between the arms trade, wars and forced migration clearer than ever — but instead of clamping down on the industry, Europe and Britain are focusing on turning back desperate refugees in boats, writes NATHAN AKEHURST
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH: (Left) A local lifeboat at Dungeness in Kent, brings in a group of refugees picked-up following a small boat incident in the Channel
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
LAST YEAR a Conservative MP warned the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) that they “were risking the reputation of the charity.”
The RNLI, a volunteer emergency service which usually saves the lives of overconfident surfers or sunstroke-hit beachgoers, has dared to defend also saving refugees in the English Channel, as well as run an anti-drowning overseas aid programme.
In so doing they have wandered into the British political establishment’s periodic assaults on migrants. These have stepped up again as the British government rushes through its Nationality and Borders Bill, adopting a suite of measures that have caused chaos and misery elsewhere to “protect” the country from a handful of people in dinghies.
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Spain has joined South Africa’s ICJ genocide case against Israel while imposing weapons bans and port restrictions, moves partly driven by trade unions — proving just how effectively civil society can reshape government policy, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
