Green Party deputy leader MOTHIN ALI, who will speak at the International Anti-War Conference in London on June 20, says Britain needs to rethink its priorities – and its allies
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Social inequalities and government cuts to education
Cuts to universities form part of a larger devaluing of social and educational support over the last decade, writes ANGELIQUE RICHARDSON
From Global Counsel to Arden, SOLOMON HUGHES finds firms linked to discredited politicians are still calling the shots in Britain
KEVIN COURTNEY explains why Reform UK is no friend to workers or trade unions, but just another party of the super-rich
EMMA DENT COAD explains why she is stepping down from the council after 20 years and how the legacy of the fire still haunts the area
While international attention focuses on ceasefire frameworks, Israel is openly advancing plans for a permanent expansion of its control over Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Researchers PAUL HOLDEN and JESSICA MURRAY are calling for whistleblowers and documentary records to uncover how Labour Together helped build the parliamentary majority that now dominates the Labour Party
THE novelist and poet Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an anti-imperialist and supporter of women’s rights, including the suffrage.
The son of a builder and a domestic worker with a love of books, he grew up in what would become known as the “hungry ’40s,” in a home filled with dramatic tales of political activism.
He urged the importance of internationalism to promote ethical ideals and peace, writing in 1917 that patriotism should “be extended to the whole globe” and that “the sentiment of Foreignness” should “attach only to other planets and their inhabitants, if any.”
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