SYRIAN government forces took control of the largely Kurdish city of Manbij today as footage emerged which showed US troops passing in the opposite direction as they left the area.
The Syrian flag was hoisted above the city as Russian troops joined their counterparts in the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) took up positions together on the front line.
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
While Hardie, MacDonald and Wilson faced down war pressure from their own Establishment, today’s leadership appears to have forgotten that opposing imperial adventures has historically defined Labour’s moral authority, writes KEITH FLETT


