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
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Acceptable racism? Not in my book
Why are racist attitudes to Gypsies acceptable from otherwise right-minded people, asks PETER FROST
THE RIGHT TO BE DIFFERENT: Young women and men wash and exercise their horses in the river Eden during the Horse Fair in Appleby, Cumbria — an popular annual gathering of gypsies and travellers
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
As the US intensifies its economic and political pressure it is now vitally important to demand the British government intervene to end US aggression, writes GEOFF BOTTOMS
SEVIM DAGDELEN argues that a legal framework exists for a closure of US and Nato military base in Ramstein
I have never understood why among some of my friends and acquaintances who would never utter a racist opinion about the Irish, Eastern Europeans, Afro-Caribbeans, Indians and Pakistanis or any other ethnic grouping are those happy to make public their disapproval of Gypsies and other groups who choose a travelling lifestyle.
They will group them all together as thieves, roadside litter louts and anti-social scroungers.
People who would rightly choke on the words “nigger” or “paki” will happily use racist terms like “pikey,” “gyppo,” “diddicoy” or “tinker” to describe members of the various itinerate groups.
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