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UN nuclear watchdog chief says intensified fighting around Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant ‘unpredictable and dangerous’
UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi says intensified fighting around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine render the situation “unpredictable and potentially dangerous.”
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Labour ‘betrays millions of young people’ after dropping pledge to abolish university tuition fees
Students and education unions slammed Labour’s “betrayal of millions of young people in desperate need of hope” today after the party’s increasingly right-wing leadership dropped a pledge to abolish cripplingly high university tuition fees.
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The financial backers of the war on woke
Matthew Goodwin wants us to worry about a ‘new elite’ of media workers and academics, not the actual elite of billionaires—like his backers. SOLOMON HUGHES unveils the trail.
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The sudden arrival of a cold war with China
Within a few short years we have gone from celebrating links with China to ripping up essential relationships and paving the ground for military conflict — we must now oppose Aukus and a new nuclear arms race, writes KEN LIVINGSTONE.
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Corbyn accuses Labour leadership of ‘denigrating party’s democratic foundations’
Sir Keir confirms plans to permanently block the former Labour leader from the parliamentary party.
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The British empire: culture war and actual war
The flurry of criticism and counter-outrage over the classical colonial era is no mere academic matter, warns ANDREW MURRAY: what is being debated is whether fresh imperial slaughter can be sold to the public.
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Uproar as Starmer bans Corbyn from standing as Labour candidate at next election
Campaigners slam the move: ‘Labour does not belong to one man but to its members’.
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A masterpiece of Socialist Realism
BRUNI DE LA MOTTE recommends a classic of East German literature that gives a human face to difficult political choices.
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France brought to a standstill over attack on pensions
Workers walked out on the second day of industrial action against President Emmanuel Macron’s scheme to raise the French retirement age by two years to 64.
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An end to the war in Ukraine must be urgently sought
PRESIDENT Volodymyr Zelensky is away from Ukraine for the first time since his country’s long simmering civil war became a full-blown international conflict.
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Calibrated chaos and cruelty in the little town of Bethlehem
Following a recent visit, JAN O’MALLEY reports on the tactics of constant obstruction, harassment and persecution, from tear-gassing nurseries to arbitrary checkpoints and night raids, used to drive Palestinians from their land.
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Zero-Covid and the China protests: look at the bigger picture
Ever since the world’s first Covid outbreak in Wuhan, the virus has been used as a stick to beat China.
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China is building a truly ecological civilisation
While the inertia of the market-led nations gives us terrifying forecasts for the planet, state socialism in the east has delivered on wind and solar energy, green infrastructure, electric vehicles, reforestation and carbon reduction, reports CARLOS MARTINEZ.
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The U.S. faces increasing resistance from Europe over escalating the Ukraine conflict
THE People’s Assembly demonstration this weekend was a welcome return to the mass politics of the streets and a valuable first challenge to the austerity programme that the Tories are carefully constructing.
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Scotland passes emergency rent freeze and eviction ban laws
The Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) Act allows ministers to temporarily freeze rent increases for private and social tenants and for student accommodation.
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Cuba’s new Family Code: made possible by socialism
Rather than simply ‘legalising gay marriage’ the new laws in Cuba addressed everything from domestic work to children’s rights, engaging half of the entire population in a uniquely socialist process, explain MARY DAVIS and ANGUS REID.
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Thousands gather for human chain around parliament against extradition of Julian Assange
THOUSANDS of campaigners joined MPs over the weekend to form a human chain around Parliament and protest against the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange THOUSANDS of campaigners joined MPs over the weekend to form a human chain around Parliament and protest against the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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Labour conference delegate suspended after opposing arming Ukraine
A Labour conference delegate who spoke against uncritical support for the Ukrainian government on Tuesday has been suspended.
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Gorbachev and his legacy must be viewed in context
When a life is lauded by both Henry Kissinger and Boris Johnson, the deceased must have done something very wrong.
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Poland says Ukraine must recognise Bandera’s genocide during WWII
Ukraine must acknowledge the genocide of Poles by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in World War II, a Polish official says.