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MIKE COWLEY welcomes half a century of remarkable work, that begins before the Greens and invites a connection to — and not a division from — nature
Who needs Chilcot to tell them the truth?
The Paddy McGuffin column
ANDREW MURRAY recommends a volume of essays that nail the visionless, racist and neoliberal character of policy under Starmer’s Labour Party
JONATHAN TAYLOR appreciates how, for a black British musician, to walk onstage can be a rebellious act
Since 2023, Strike Map has evolved from digital mapping at a national level to organising ‘mega pickets’ — we believe that mass solidarity with localised disputes prepares the ground for future national action, writes HENRY FOWLER
Like dictators of the past, Trump is seeking an enforcement agency answering only to him, asserts CJ ATKINS
From tens of thousands left abandoned to a militarised ‘looting’ crackdown, Hurricane Katrina laid bare racial inequities and government neglect, writes NATALIA MARQUES
It was announced this week that the families of soldiers killed in the illegal Iraq war are to bring legal action against the Chilcot Inquiry if it fails to produce its findings by the end of the year.
It may be a controversial opinion but this column’s sympathies do not on primarily focus on the men and women in uniform who died, except that the loss of any human life through manufactured conflict is abhorrent.
Likewise it has long been perplexed and frustrated at the fact that when any member of the armed forces dies, they are automatically “a hero.”
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