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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To fight austerity we must quit the EU
Wages won’t improve while Britain remains part of the European Union, says ALEX GORDON
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
On Friday October 25 RMT members employed by outsourcing specialists Mitie to service and clean First Great Western trains mobilised 50 noisy, exuberant strikers on a picket line at London’s Paddington station.
They are demanding their employer raise pay rates from their current £6.37 an hour, which hardly covers the cost of travel to work and is barely above national minimum wage — upped to £6.31 this month — to pay a London living wage, currently set at £8.55 an hour.
It is a sobering fact that in order for a worker not to claim social security benefit a London living wage would need to be £10.70 an hour.
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