Keir Starmer’s supine support for the Israeli onslaught on Gaza has cost Labour – at least his version of it – the parliamentary seat of
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Editorial: chaotic games in Parliament, while Gaza suffers
Two key lessons come out of the chaos in the House of Commons on Wednesday: that the Labour leadership is being dragged, kicking and screaming,

Where there was growing harmony between the interests of the ruling elite in Saudi Arabia and the capitalist class of Israel, the war in Gaza

The savage war that Israel is conducting against the population of Gaza will have profound and lasting effects throughout the Middle East, including Israel. The

There is a profound historical irony in the fact that the 1948 international Genocide Convention, which was set up in response to the Nazis’ murder

By Michael Roberts Taiwan has a general election on Saturday. The international media has highlighted the election as an important geopolitical pivot – namely, if

It isn’t just the weather that is grey and gloomy this first week of January. It is also the political and economic outlook for the

In the next week we will no doubt have inflicted upon us the ‘official Christmas photographs’ of Rishi Sunak and his family. It is a

The special conference of the TUC last weekend reaffirmed its previous decision to opposed the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act, which comes into force in

Editorial: Cop28, the biggest circus in the world
The Cop26 meeting in Glasgow two years ago was described at the time by Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg, as just “more blah, blah blah”.