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
LABOUR’S shift towards support for a second referendum on EU membership and its decision to suspend Chris Williamson mark retreats by the leadership.
The consequences could be disastrous for its survival. A huge sense of betrayal is clearly felt by many Labour members — though not necessarily the same ones — over each issue.
If we are to avoid the reversal of the most impressive socialist advance seen anywhere in the developed world over recent years, the left is going to need to fight back against these defeats in a united way.
Former Labour MP LAURA SMITH makes the case for The Many slate in the elections to Your Party’s new executive
BEN CHACKO says in different ways, the centenary of the General Strike and that of Fidel Castro’s birth point to priority tasks for the British left in the coming year
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT


