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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The Co-op, anti-slavery and the Lancashire cotton famine
NICK MATTHEWS charts the amazing story of how the working people of Manchester helped in the fight against slavery in the American civil war
The first battle of Bull Run, which was the first major battle of the American civil war
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
IN 2017 the Co-op Group was presented with the Thomson-Reuters Stop Slavery award.
This was made for its impressive work against modern-day slavery, winning praise for its Bright Futures programme which offers paid employment for slavery and trafficking victims.
I’m not sure if the founders of what had been the Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS) would have felt about this — pride no doubt that their values where still being upheld but shock that something they had fought against was still going on.
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