The government has few aces up its sleeve when it comes to managing popular anger, argues ANDREW MURRAY
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200 years after Peterloo it’s time to fight again for democracy
In the face of an Establishment power grab, LYNN HENDERSON introduces the Politics for the Many campaign to reform our undemocratic parliamentary system
Israel's brutality in Lebanon, combined with efforts to draw the Lebanese government into negotiations, are part of a strategy to delegitimise resistance to occupation and apartheid, argues RAMZY BAROUD
KEITH FLETT looks at the state’s efforts to limit protest rights from the 19th century to today’s repression of the Palestine movement
A landmark UN resolution led by Ghana declares the transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against humanity — but Western opposition and abstentions reveal enduring resistance to historical accountability, write ISAAC SANEY and JAMES COUNTS EARLY
The new BBC director-general now faces a test of public scrutiny, with his record at McKinsey and lack of newsroom experience under the spotlight, says STEPHEN ARNELL
Cuts are sweeping campuses as cash-strapped universities slash staff and politicians fail to act on a growing funding emergency. VINCE MILLS reports
LAST week Boris Johnson and his hard-right government launched an all-out assault on our already embattled democracy.
Not content with trying to force through a damaging no-deal Brexit and letting Britain crash out of the EU on October 31, last Wednesday he moved to shut down Parliament to make it harder for MPs to stop him.
Earlier that week we heard that he plans to pack the House with dozens of hard-Brexiteer peers, including Wetherspoon’s boss Tim Martin and billionaire hedge fund chief Sir Michael Hintze — both funders of right-wing Leave campaigns — in order to help him force his agenda through the Lords.
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