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Mick Lynch humiliates Reform candidate in fiery Newsnight clash leftfootforward.org/2026/06/mick-l… via @leftfootfwd

New poll reveals just how many voters Labour has lost over Gaza leftfootforward.org/2026/06/new-po… via @leftfootfwd

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How to end the race and class inequalities destroying working people’s lives open.substack.com/pub/miketreen8…

@piersmorgan Piers Morgan, the washed up has been at it again x.com/jomickane/stat…

'Huge transformation' shrinks Antarctic sea ice to record lows climateandcapitalism.com/2026/05/11/hug…

One of my most popular articles ever included a long extract from a powerful closing speech by barrister Rajiv Menon during a Palestine Action trial in January. In the end, the jury refused to convict the six defendants. Menon is now on trial for that closing speech – for reminding the jury that they had a 350-year-old right in law to follow their conscience in reaching a verdict, even if it meant defying a direction from the judge to convict. Paradoxically, Menon joked in his speech that, because of that earlier legal principle, the judge, unlike his counterpart in 1670, could not lock them, the jurors, up were they to choose to follow their consciences. Instead, the judge is seeking to lock up the barrister. Does 2026 qualify as an improvement on 1670? It is believed that this is the first time a barrister has been tried for comments made to a jury in his closing speech. That should serve as a potent reminder of just us how authoritarian the current political moment is, and of how quickly long-established legal rights are being dismantled to protect British collusion in genocide. Read my article – and the part of the speech for which Menon is being tried – here: jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-01-1…

As Labour heads for a wipeout, a lesson: never fall for the ‘adults in the room’ line again: Presenting himself as a serious, sensible ‘grownup’ was essential to Starmer’s rise to power. His premiership has revealed how hollow that message is theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

New Zealand has a system of migrant labour exploitation by design open.substack.com/pub/miketreen8…

Venezuela’s Window of Opportunity for Economic Recovery: Buying Time to Rebuild While Under Siege znetwork.org/znetarticle/ve…

A Peace Agenda To End Military Madness znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-…

'Act of Piracy': Israel Seizes Gaza Flotilla in International Waters, Detains Activists palestinechronicle.com/act-of-piracy-… via @PalestineChron

The cost of 76 years of US wars, from Korea to Iran aje.news/bjlj7p via @AJEnglish

May 1: Unions, community orgs plan nationwide ‘economic blackout’ against billionaires and authoritarianism therealnews.com/may-1-unions-c…

Roger Douglas continues lying to defend failed policies open.substack.com/pub/miketreen8…

Zack Polanski brands bus privatisation an ‘unmitigated disaster’ in local election campaign visit leftfootforward.org/2026/04/zack-p… via @leftfootfwd

Anzac Day: Remembering the futility of wars for empire! open.substack.com/pub/miketreen8…