Venezuelan student leader kicks off speaking tour in Britain

Here, we respond to a reader from Edinburgh who asks: Why hasn’t the response to the bombing of Iran been as big as the response to the genocide in Gaza? Plus: reports from Iran solidarity protests, Greek seafarer protests, and more.

Trade unions in Britain have the potential to play an important role in the struggle against racism. But conservatism and class-collaborationism too often stops them from leading this charge. Appeals for ‘peace, love, and hope’ must be transformed into militant class war.

Inflation. Bankruptcies. Sovereign debt crisis. Political instability. These apocalyptic horsemen haunt Starmer and Reeves, as the Iran war projects its shadow over the future of the British economy.