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Ofer Cassif: ‘I don’t accept that Israeli society is lost’ “I DO not accept the claim that Israeli society is lost and that there is nothing to fight for within it. We must not give up.” That was the point emphasised by Ofer Cassif, a member of the Israeli pa...

ASSAF TALGAM talks to an Israeli Communist lawmaker about the need to use every tool of democratic and non-violent struggle; how Israeli society has changed since October 7 2023; and the persecution of the left in the parliamentary arena
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Turning the page on SNP failure: Labour’s moment to lead THERE has long been a single truth to Scottish politics — trust must be earned close to home.With the Holyrood elections fast approaching, Scottish Labour had a clear strategic choice to make.The part...

Turning the page on SNP failure: Labour’s moment to lead - As Holyrood elections approach, BRIAN LEISHMAN MP argues that Labour’s time has come — to open a new chapter which puts an end to the years of managed decline
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The unfit Metropolitan Police’s racism and misogyny is not a ‘hidden culture’ LAST WEEK, the BBC in its headline reported a “hidden culture” of racism and misogyny in the Metropolitan Police. In its article announcing its findings, the BBC said that “Serving Metropolitan Police...

The appalling bigotry and bias of London’s police force has been obvious for years – and the police leadership does not appear inclined to do anything about it, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
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Labour Party conference 2025: where do we go from here? THIS year’s Labour Party conference in Liverpool should have been a moment of unity and renewal. After 14 years of Tory rule, we are a government with over a year back in power. People are desperate f...

Apart from a bright spark of hope in the victory of the Gaza motion, this year’s conference lacked vision and purpose — we need to urgently reconnect Labour with its roots rather than weakly aping the flag-waving right, argues KIM JOHNSON MP
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Why we need the return of women’s centres PROFESSOR Linda Gask, whose latest book, All in Her Mind: How We Are Failing Women’s Mental Health and What Must Change, shares the personal testimonies of women who have been failed by mental health ...

In the face of funding cuts, closures and a shift into women’s centres providing criminal justice-only services rather than a holistic approach, RUTH HUNT urges women to protect existing resources, volunteer and build new networks of support
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58th congress of Britain’s communist party: renewal and change in a dangerous time HISTORY has shown us in the clearest possible terms that when the Communist Party is strong, Britain’s labour movement, left and working class are strong — the struggle for socialism is strong.Around ...

The CPB's congress aims to build the united front against monopoly capitalism, utilising the YCL’s promising new generation of militants — but our party remains far from the strength history requires of it, despite recent progress, writes JOHNNIE HUNTER
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Liberty and justice for Iran, not war, not sanctions AMID the continuing disorienting cacophony of war in the Middle East, and the horrific toll being exacted upon the Palestinian people in particular, while the international community and its represent...

Liberty and justice for Iran, not war, not sanctions - As war between Iran and the West looms once more, NAVID SHOMALI sounds the alarm bell and calls on the peace movement in Britain and internationally to mobilise for action before it is too late
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Justice over Colombia’s civil war takes shape IN a long-awaited development, Colombia’s transitional justice court, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), has issued its first sentences for crimes committed during the armed conflict. Crea...

With the ceasefire and peace process now firmly in place for almost a decade, Colombia’s peace court has begun issuing its first sentences against both sides over human rights violations during the armed conflict, reports NICK MACWILLIAM
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Buying the bubble: a Labour conference love-in with AI MY experience of artificial intelligence (AI) feels like the big tech firms are following the “junk food model,” where the food industry promoted superficially attractive super-processed products load...

The new angle from private firms shmoozing their way into public contracts was the much-trumpeted arrival of ‘artificial intelligence’ — and no-one seemed to have heard the numerous criticisms of this unproven miracle cure, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
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Meloni’s Gaza challenge: the people v Netanyahu’s cronies WHAT is happening in Italy regarding Gaza is unprecedented in the history of solidarity between the country and any other international cause anywhere. A popular uprising is under way, the consequence...

By refusing to recognise a Palestinian state and continuing to supply Israel with weapons, Meloni has provoked an uprising that is without precedent in the history of solidarity with Palestine — and it could change Italy profoundly too, writes RAMZY BAROUD
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The United Nations needs a radical overhaul THE fact that the United States gets to effectively decide who attends the United Nations is proof, if ever it was needed, of why a new system of global governance is urgently required.Towards the end...

The United Nations needs a radical overhaul - The UN is not only in need of structural change, a fundamental mindset revolution is also required – and it’s China that points the way with its Global Governance Initiative, argues ROGER McKENZIE
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The ‘Golden Age of nuclear’ deal is all a veneer AT THIS point there is no need for any of us who are inclined toward commentary to further point out the utter dereliction of the Keir Starmer government. It is doing a perfectly fine job on its own.O...

The ‘Golden Age of nuclear’ deal is all a veneer - Once again, working people have been betrayed with false promises about jobs in an industry that is actually making climate change worse, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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French prepare to ‘block everything’ all over again TODAY the French people will celebrate the inability of the state and its increasingly unstable governments to hold back their anger and opposition to yet more pro-Big Business, anti-worker imposition...

French prepare to ‘block everything’ all over again - A day of strike action is set to be unleashed today, against tax injustice, attacks on pensions and the anti-democratic manoeuvrings of Macron, writes BILL GREENSHIELDS
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Why education is key to combating the far right DEFEATING fascists is personal to me. When I helped set up the Justice for Stephen Lawrence campaign and led the Anti-Racist Alliance’s successful action to close down the “nazi bunker” headquarters o...

My time working on the Stephen Lawrence campaign taught me a lot about how racism festers in alienation and ignorance — I know first-hand why educators, especially people of colour, must lead the fight against race hate, argues MARC WADSWORTH
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Starbucks workers’ struggle goes global as victory nears MASS organisations representing some 85 million workers around the world announced in a public letter late last week their commitment to support unionised Starbucks baristas and uphold picket lines in...

Organised workers at Starbucks are scoring victory after victory, and now international bodies are pitching in to finally force this figurehead of corporate capitalism to give in to unionisation, writes EMILIO AVELAR
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The far right’s current confidence levels are disturbing SOME demonstrations have a significance way beyond their numbers.Thus, a few hundred far-rightists assembling menacingly outside the Labour Party conference may not seem very significant. They posed n...

The far right feels comfortable openly saying the most racist, extreme things imaginable and harassing events in ways unseen in living memory — we desperately need an anti-fascist Labour Party to replace the current appeasement regime, writes ANDREW MURRAY
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Justice for the Cammell Laird 37 WHEN 37 shipyard workers from Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead were sent to a high-security prison in 1984, their only crime was fighting for their jobs, the survival of their sector and their com...

Justice for the Cammell Laird 37 - KIM JOHNSON MP explains why, just like Orgreave and the Shrewsbury Pickets before it, justice today is so important for the struggles of tomorrow
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The nuclear choice: a people’s economy or the bosses’ bomb? IN a month’s time, trade unionists, environmentalists, community organisations and political activists will gather in Glasgow to push back firmly against the British government’s drive towards rearmam...

CND’s Stop the Nuclear Nightmare conference in Glasgow will be an important step towards destroying the false arguments that weapons and war spending will lead to job creation and prosperity, rather than bringing Armageddon closer, writes SIMON BARROW
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What does real security look like? Campaigners push Labour to rethink defence BRITAIN needs a new understanding of security — one that invests in communities, tackles climate breakdown, and dismantles racism, instead of pouring billions into nuclear weapons and military expansi...

CEREN SAGIR reports from the CND fringe meeting during the Labour conference, where speakers slammed a system where £99 billion nuclear arsenal replacement costs are ring-fenced while the two-child benefit cap remains
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Labour is still failing us on social security WHAT has defined this Labour government? For many, it happened early on, when one of the new government’s first decisions was to cut winter fuel payments for nearly 10 million pensioners.We all knew L...

Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
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Parliamentary democracy is faltering across Europe JUST as Britain’s recalibrated relationship with the European Union is beginning to acquire more settled contours, politics in Britain conforms more to a continental model with a multiplicity of polit...

NICK WRIGHT reports from Italy, where 80 cities saw Gaza strikes as unions paralysed transport and massive crowds clashed with police in Milan — but France is also kicking off, and Westminster, in a very different way, is facing a crisis of legitimacy too
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Community anger remains as PKK trial begins in London ON SEPTEMBER 19 2025, six Kurdish activists appeared at London’s Old Bailey Crown Court for a pre-trial hearing following high-profile counter-terrorism raids in November 2024. The dawn operation...

The move against alleged PKK members that sparked outrage as a community centre in north London was raided last year has now come to trial, writes TONY BURKE, but in the meantime, the peace process abroad has changed the situation almost entirely
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Time to follow China’s climate leadership THE climate crisis is happening now. We are in a crucial decade in the century that will make or break human civilisation. It will not follow a path of Fabian gradualism. In physics as in politic...

PAUL ATKIN argues that we must avoid being tied to the millstone of US energy policy — a death sentence paid for by big oil — and embrace co-operation with the world’s green leader for a renewable, sustainable future
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Argentina: the fight against the far right continues WITH the economy on the brink of total collapse, this week has seen Argentina in the news, and another wave of international attention on its far-right President Javier Milei.Since taking office in la...

Despite the adoring support from Elon Musk and Donald Trump, Javier Milei’s radical-right free-market nightmare is unravelling, and the people are beginning to score major victories against the government in the streets and in elections, reports BEN HAYES
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Tinker, tailor, Scouser, spy THE North East Volunteers for Liberty group aims to raise awareness of the volunteers who fought fascism in Britain, Italy and Spain.With the 90th anniversary of the military coup which initiated the ...

Tinker, tailor, Scouser, spy - TONY FOX invites readers to come and hear the story of the remarkable Liverpudlian International Brigader Alexander Foote
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All aboard the profit train ALMOST exactly 200 years ago, on September 27 1825, a steam-powered locomotive made a 26-mile journey from Shildon to Stockton, via Darlington. It carried coal from collieries all the way to the harbo...

The modern railway network turns 200 this month and is currently one of the greenest forms of transport. But unless focus shifts from profits to people, Britain won’t benefit from it, argue ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
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United Nations at 80: a call for unity against unilateralism EIGHTY years ago, in the aftermath of the devastating world wars, nations united to create the United Nations, opening a new chapter in global governance.Since then, the UN has reached key milestones ...

United Nations at 80: a call for unity against unilateralism - ZHANG HE highlights pressure coming from the global South for a more multilateral approach to global governance and a more equitable world order
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The eagerly anticipated Employment Rights Bill: hope v reality THE eagerly anticipated Employment Rights Bill, the pinnacle of Keir Starmer’s Labour government, is due to receive royal assent later in the year.The headlines all sound fantastic — day one rights, e...

Employment lawyer ALICE BOWMAN warns ‘day one rights’ include an ‘initial period’ and the zero-hours contract fixes create baffling fixed-term loopholes. If the Bill doesn’t work properly and deliver, Labour is doomed
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A new epoch v ‘the main stronghold of modern colonialism’ From September 17 to 19, the 12th Xiangshan Forum took place in Beijing. The security conference in China’s capital brought together 1,800 politicians, diplomats and scholars from over 100 countries. ...

In a speech to the 12th Xiangshan Forum in Beijing, SEVIM DAGDELEN warns of a growing historical revisionism to whitewash Germany and Japan’s role in WWII as part of a return to a cold war strategy from the West — but multipolarity will win out
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Fanning the flames of fascism: Starmer’s betrayal of the working class THE so-called Unite the Kingdom far-right demonstration earlier this month was the largest such mobilisation in this country in its history, with as many as 150,000 participants chanting anti-Muslim, ...

CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Labour gains nothing from its adoption of right-wing stances on immigration, and seems instead to be deliberately paving the way for the far right to become an established force in British politics, as it has already in Europe
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