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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Belarus: nationalised industries or EU privatisation?
KRISTIAN CARTER explains what is at stake in the embattled nation, the only post-Soviet country to resist neoliberalism and maintain state control of its resources
A government supporter wears a portrait of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko at a pro-government rally in Minsk, August 25, 2020
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
OUR television screens are currently awash with images of protesters on the streets of Belarusian towns and cities. Images of masses of civilians holding red and white flags are flooding the European media.
Rolling news footage of presidential candidates meeting high ranking EU officials is part of a sustained campaign to give the defeated candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya the appearance of a president in exile.
The European Union has already recognised her as the legitimate winner of the Belarus August election despite no apparent investigation or examination of the legitimacy of the actual election itself.
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