Once again Tower Hamlets is being targeted by anti-Islam campaigners, this time a revamped and radicalised version of Ukip — the far-right event is now banned by the police, but we’ll be assembling this Saturday to make sure they stay away, says JAYDEE SEAFORTH
Bangladesh at a crossroads: the aftermath of a people's revolution
As an interim government takes shape, MOSHFIQUR NOOR examines the challenges ahead and the delicate balance between rapid reform and political stability, in the first of a three-part series
University students shout slogans during a protest to demand justice for the victims killed in the recent countrywide deadly clashes and ask for their campuses to be opened, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 31, 2024
URI WELTMANN reports on a day in the life of peace activists from Israel, travelling to help Palestinians in the West Bank harvest their olives under threat from settlers and soldiers
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Italian unions are mobilising against rearmament and for wages and investment – but left blunders still leave the ‘post-fascist’ Italian PM looking likely to keep her job, says NICK WRIGHT
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CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises
THE extraordinary rapidity with which a student revolt around the issue of quotas for jobs has morphed into a mass uprising of millions and toppled the authoritarian regime of Sheikh Hasina and the ruling Awami League of nearly 16 years has taken everybody by surprise.
Even the student leaders did not expect such a turn of events. What then turned a seemingly technical issue of jobs into a political earthquake that has seen the prime minister scurrying to board a military aircraft and flee the country?
The move from protests on employment issues to a mass upsurge, from July 14 to August 5 — a mere three weeks — was triggered by an answer that Hasina gave in reply to a journalist on the quota movement.
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