Preparations for the founding conference of Britain's new socialist party – provisionally named ‘Your Party' – are underway. More than 800,000 people have registered as supporters. Local groups, proto-branches and incipient caucuses are already springing up across the country, sparking a lively debate about how the project's democratic structures and political programme should be configured. One topic of discussion is the historical experience of Corbynism and the lessons it might yield: how (…)

After contacting the French government to prevent an Israeli strike, Gaza archeologists began moving items but struggled due to the conditions in Gaza. 'We saved a large part, but in a rescue you always lose things, and you always face painful choices,' one said The Israeli army threatened last week to bombard a building holding the largest archeological collection in the Gaza Strip, the Biblical and Archeological Research Institute (EBAF) said. Over the weekend, archaeologists carried (…)