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Asylum-seekers in the channel: a humanitarian crisis of our government's making
British wars helped create the refugees' plight - it's about time we showed them our humanity, says LINDSEY GERMAN
Asylum boat channel
Trump’s economic adviser has exposed the actual strategy: forcing other countries to provide financial support for US world hegemony
Activist Angie Zelter has been arrested more than a hundred times. She’s not stopping now, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Natalia Marques looks at last week's ruling that Khalil can be deported and its implications
We are not here to advocate for the arms industry or its CEOs, writes STEVE HANDFORD, and that means we must take a stand against the government’s spending on war
Educators must fight for an inclusive, creative system that values all children
Although our sector is hearing better things from the current government, the recognition that what we do is education in its own right, rather than just childcare, is still not reflected in policy, writes LUCY COLEMAN
IN THE past week we have seen Home Secretary Priti Patel take to the seas, the navy called out to police the English Channel, and the BBC and Sky News charter boats to film dinghies full of refugees in distress at sea.
All this in response to a few hundred refugees trying to cross the Channel in tiny boats and in very dangerous conditions, because they are desperate to get to Britain.
This has, typically, been labelled by right-wing media and politicians as akin to an invasion. A YouGov poll showed that nearly half of British people have little or no sympathy for their plight — although figures among Labour voters were much more favourable.
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From Storm Shadow missiles hitting Russia to support for the endless Gaza slaughter, the new Labour government has continued the years of Tory warmongering. The peace movement faces a crucial year ahead, writes LINDSEY GERMAN
After a year of vibrant Palestine protests, LINDSEY GERMAN calls all campaigners to this weekend’s mass meeting of the anti-war movement in London
The task of the anti-war movement is to prevent Labour taking us deeper into the abyss of war – and it’s a task that’s more urgent than ever, says LINDSEY GERMAN of Stop the War
From Middle East escalation to Nato’s Russia proxy war, we face the consequences of decades of destructive interventions by the US and its allies, writes LINDSEY GERMAN
