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
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‘Today is the beginning of a new and challenging road’
GARY SMITH writes on the GMB’s new direction, how the union will begin to right its past wrongs and seek to be the ‘light upon the hill’ once more
GMB members on strike against Scottish Gas's fire and rehire practices and (right) GMB general secretary-elect Gary Smith
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
THE trade union movement is not about individual leadership, superheroes, or career paths. Ambition and calculation have no place within its ranks.
It is a calling: a gut instinct that tells you what is right and what is wrong. It is a collective cause whose watchwords are fairness, decency, and solidarity.
I joined the GMB as an apprentice at Scottish Gas. I knew, instinctively, that this was my union. So, I got involved and became a young members’ activist and a shop steward.
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