This week, a delegation of UK educators and union activists is visiting Ukraine in solidarity with educators in a country at war. Reports will be posted on this blog. This morning, we visited a ...

On Sunday 27 October, the liberal Israeli newspaper Haaretz organised a conference on the ongoing Gaza war at JW3, a Jewish cultural and community centre in northwest London. The conference was ...

Shabana Mahmood, the Justice Minister, has said that Labour will “re-examine” “imprisonment for public protection”. Prisons minister James Timpson may soon free over 1,000 people who are out only “on ...

On 28 October, the Israeli parliament passed new laws severely restricting the ability of Unrwa, the United Nations agency responsible for supporting Palestinian refugees, to operate. The laws ban ...

Picture: Bidzina Ivanishvili, billionaire founder of the Dream party. Even if you know nothing about the republic of Georgia and were completely unaware of its elections last week, the fact that ...

Ayman Odeh is a Palestinian socialist and member of the Knesset (Israeli parliament). He was speaking at a conference in London organised by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. “We cannot return [the dead] ...

Last week’s Socialist Worker rejects the Taiwanese people’s right to self-determination. In an article headed “Analysis: US and China draw battle lines in Taiwan”, Thomas Foster offers a veneer of ...

The University of Sheffield [UoS] has announced that it has a £54 million shortfall in its annual budget and a drop in student numbers since last year of 2,200 or 7%. This should raise alarm bells ...

Capitalism is increasingly exhausting and despoiling freshwater resources, disrupting a key Earth system and risking tipping us into a new, more hostile geological age. At the same time it is failing ...

Fourteen Palestine Action activists and 26 Just Stop Oil activists are in custody, either on remand or imprisoned for terms up to five years, for taking part in or planning protests. Abdinasir Hussein ...