DIANE ABBOTT explodes the anti-migrant myths perpetrated by cynical politicians and an irresponsible mass media
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Democracy – the end of an experiment
Mere people cannot be allowed to stand in the way of the EU’s relentless drive to boost profits, writes STEVE McGIFFEN
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the government’s proposals to further limit the right of citizens to trial by jury
As we mark the anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, JOHN WIGHT reflects on the enormity of the US decision to drop the atom bombs
For 80 years, survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings have pleaded “never again,” for anyone. But are we listening, asks Linda Pentz Gunter
Labour councillor PAUL DONOVAN wonders why the right-wing party gets so much more media attention than it seems to merit
SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
NICK DEARDEN of Global Justice Now argued recently in these pages that the debt deal forced on the Greek government “is the brainchild of neoliberal fanatics with no respect for democracy.”
I would go even further — it isn’t simply that the elite that now controls Europe, along with most of the rest of the world, has no respect for democracy.
Having discovered they can no longer control it, they want to rob it of all meaning, destroying its substance while preserving its outer shell.
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