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The peace movement v the Starmer war machine
From Storm Shadow missiles hitting Russia to support for the endless Gaza slaughter, the new Labour government has continued the years of Tory warmongering. The peace movement faces a crucial year ahead, writes LINDSEY GERMAN
LOUD AND CLEAR: People take part in a Palestine solidarity rally in central London
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
THE traditional Christmas message of peace on Earth is unlikely to be heeded by the British government and its allies in the coming year.
If the declarations of Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his Foreign Secretary David Lammy are anything to go by, then we will see continued warmongering, increases in arms spending and a militant form of militarism which regards calls for peace as akin to treachery.
Anyone who expected a reprieve from the belligerence of 14 years of Tory rule will have been disappointed, not least in foreign policy. Starmer’s record on Gaza was appalling in opposition, losing Labour many thousands of votes as he continued to pronounce that Israel had the right to defend itself. In government, he has expressed repeated support for a government which is a pariah across the world.
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