‘Fantasy Israel’ crumbles as military supremacy fails Israel’s right-wing government refuses to acknowledge its military failures and declining global legitimacy, while allowing itself to entertain delusional expansion plans fuelled by religious extremism, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Wednesday 06th Nov 2024 Israel lashes out: Latin American governments pay for supporting Palestine Progressive Latin American governments face heightened pressure and threats after taking strong stances on Gaza, writes JOHN PERRY, the latest wave of nefarious Israeli interference in the continent
Wednesday 06th Nov 2024 Science and Society The autumnal colour magic of leaf senescence Genetic engineering to remove a structure from plant cells called the Golgi body sheds light on how leaves change with the seasons, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
Wednesday 06th Nov 2024 Education under the US blockade ROBERT POOLE reports back from his mission to Cuba delivering aid and learning from Cuban educators
Tuesday 05th Nov 2024 For a worker’s Budget, tax the fat cats In the second of two articles on Labour’s weak Budget, ROBERT GRIFFITHS argues that Britain’s massive private wealth and offshore tax havens show clear potential for radical redistribution through progressive taxation
Tuesday 05th Nov 2024 The call for slavery reparations cannot be ignored The Labour leadership’s refusal to even consider the widely accepted case for Britain to pay reparations for its part in the transatlantic slave trade is a sign of its imperialist worldview, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
Monday 04th Nov 2024 Beth Winter: why I am resigning from Labour In a heartfelt resignation statement, the former Cynon Valley MP explains why, as a socialist, she cannot remain part of the Labour Party
Tuesday 05th Nov 2024 The Budget: harsh class reality lurks behind ‘working people’ rhetoric In the first of two articles, ROBERT GRIFFITHS argues that despite a parliamentary majority, Labour’s timid Budget fails to seize a historic opportunity and lacks the ambition needed to address Britain’s deep social and economic crises
Monday 04th Nov 2024 Forest Charter When Henry III had to bow to public opinion It's hard to think of any single piece of legislation enacted on this island since November 1217 that was more radical in spirit or in practice than the Forest Charter, writes MAT COWARD
Wednesday 06th Nov 2024 US election The staple paranoias of US politics DENNIS BROE takes issue with the US political Establishment's paranoid inability to look critically at itself and its deeds worldwide and the proclivity for shameless blame games
Tuesday 05th Nov 2024 Fear, loathing and vodka shots US Democrats are bracing for election night and the real possibility of a second Trump presidency, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
