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  • Two members of the Unite union holding a banner bearing the colours of the Palestinian flag an dreading 'in solidarity with Palestine London & Eastern region'

    The battle behind Unite’s belated action on Palestine

    Union members have won a long internal struggle for meaningful action against UK arm sales to Israel. Raymond Morell was one of them – and reports from behind the scenes

  • Displaced Gazans walking with their backs turned to the camera and carrying their possessions surrounded by rubble and destroyed buildings on either side of the road they are walking on

    Dispatches from Gaza: ceasefire cycles

    As talks of a ceasefire rise and fade from the headlines, Shaimaa Eid speaks to people living in Gaza City – documenting the meaning of ‘truce’ as felt on the ground

  • UK Foreign Secratary David Lammy (left) shaking hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right)

    Breaking the UK’s complicity in Israel’s genocide

    As long as arms flows and military support continue despite public opposition, the UK remains an active partner in Israel’s genocide, writes Tim Bierley

  • A black and white photo showing silhouetted militants holding weapons

    The spiral of violence in Balochistan

    Roshaan Khattak and Thomas Jeffrey Milley examine the causes of the violence between Baloch insurgents and the Pakistani government

  • Thousands of protestors with Palestine flags march in front of Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament

    Nakba facing Palestine then and now

    Bernard Regan, historian of Britain’s long involvement in the repression of Palestine, documents the brutal history of Britain’s role in driving the Palestinians from their land

  • From bystander to peacebuilder

    Vlad Sakovich reports on People First, a new campaign to release thousands of Ukrainian prisoners of war, Russian political prisoners and forcefully transferred Ukrainian children

  • Landscape with cypress trees dominated by a column of thick black smoke rising into the air

    Rekindling fires: Israel’s strategy in South Lebanon

    Israel has escalated its bombardment of Lebanon, killing over 3,000 and displacing millions. Mahdi Zaidan analyses Israel’s strategy – and the relation of Hezbollah to the people of Lebanon

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