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Demonstrators gather outside the Royal Courts of Justice in central London ahead of a High Court challenge to controversial plans to expand Heathrow Airport
DEMONSTRATORS gathered outside the High Court in central London today as the government’s much-criticised plans to expand Heathrow were challenged.
A coalition of councils, residents, environmental charities and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan are fighting a legal battle against the Tories’ decision to approve the building of a third runway at the airport west of London.
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
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