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Articles by Hugh Lanning
Palestine: the victim has been found guilty
The Guardian • Current Issue Rally for Palestine in Boorloo/Perth, September 2025. The West is at it again – led by the US with the spineless backing of the other members of the UN security council, Palestine is being made to play roulette with an Israeli gun to its head. Heads you lose, tails we win.
Palestine: the litmus test for socialist politics
The mass movement supporting Palestine represents potential political power that the left must now embrace as central to its strategy, writes HUGH LANNING, ahead of this Saturday’s Socialism or Barbarism day school in London By Hugh Lanning Mar 28, 2025 THE struggle for a free Palestine is both central and essential to building for socialism and defeating the rising tide of barbarism.
GCHQ 40: the ban on trade unions in 1984
In 1984 no-one had heard of Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the government’s then-secret intelligence-gathering centre — let alone that the staff were represented by trade unions. All that changed on January 25 1984, when Margaret Thatcher’s government announced its decision to impose a total ban on trade union membership at GCHQ. The decision came without warning or consultation, and it provoked a sustained campaign unparalleled in modern labour history.
Why Israel's annexation plans matter to Labour
With the new government in Israel threatening further annexation of occupied Palestinian land, a broad range of parliamentarians, trade unions and cultural figures have signed a statement launched today in support of the global call from Palestine for effective measures to stop the annexation.
To stop the political silencing, we're starting a new network: Labour & Palestine
During the debates over the summer, for those listening, there was one message from Palestinians here and in Palestine. “Why aren’t you talking about us anymore?” One prominent Palestinian campaigner asked privately in a Skype conversation from Ramallah – it feels like we have been ‘pushed under a bus’ by the British Labour and trade union movement.
Labour's challenge? No more Palestinian children like Ahed Tamimi
The pictures of16-year-old Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi slapping an Israeli soldier in the face went viral. Since her arrest in December there has been a global campaign for her release, although she remains imprisoned awaiting trial by military courts in Israel. Her case represents the sort of continual challenge the Labour Party will face on Palestine. Now globally famous, Ahed is but one of hundreds of Palestinian children imprisoned by Israel.
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