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
Missed opportunities to avert asbestos risk
MICK HOLDER explains the deadly and costly story of London Borough of Waltham Forest’s failure to listen to local union reps who tried for many years to get it to manage asbestos safely
Waltham Forest Town Hall
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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
RECENT investigations show the London Borough of Waltham Forest (LBWF) has paid £588,120.65 in total for four separate asbestos injury compensation claims against the authority since 2011, with one outstanding claim yet to be settled and one extra but not detailed settled claim at some time in the period from 1965 to 2011.
Because of the nature of the main asbestos diseases, most of the claimants above will have died because of their exposure or at the very best one or two might be living with a death sentence hanging over them.
One of those compensated worked in a school and the four others were for persons working in or based in council premises.
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