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Extra, extra read all about it, Tory belatedly develops conscience shocker!
The week in politics, with Paddy McGuffin
Engels’ call for a structured, systematic, critique of capitalism and for a strategy for securing something better remains as relevant today as it did a century and a half ago, declares the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
As the Stop the War Coalition holds its annual conference, ANDREW MURRAY warns that Britain’s alignment with US foreign policy is fuelling global instability and diverting billions from welfare, wages and public services
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the tension between treating children as vulnerable dependants and recognising them as citizens with rights
The tightening of protest rights reflects a broader shift toward repression in Britain’s strained liberal democracy. Socialists and trade unionists must be ready to resist further attacks on our freedoms, warns JOHN McINALLY
Until ministers stop deferring to the market and start drawing hard lines, the public will remain at the mercy of private power, says MATT KERR
Yes as you will no doubt be aware Yorkshire peer Baroness Warsi quit the Cabinet and her position at the Foreign Office this week citing the government’s pusillanimous approach to the ongoing slaughter in Gaza.
In a fairly incendiary resignation letter, extracts of which have appeared in the media, she described the government’s inaction and failure to criticise Israel as “morally indefensible,” “Not in the national interest” and argued that it would serve to foster terrorism and undermine British influence in the Middle East.
So far so good you may think, finally a member of the coalition with a few scruples and certainly it’s hard to dispute any of those points.
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RAMZY BAROUD highlights a new report by special rapporteur Francesca Albanese that unflinchingly names and shames the companies that have enabled Israel’s bloody massacre in Gaza
