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Demonstrators during a 'Kill The Bill' protest against The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill on London's Holborn, May 29, 2021
BRITAIN is performing worse than average on empowerment rights as it enters a “bleak new era,” a global interactive map exposing “blistering attacks” on peaceful protests worldwide revealed today.
Amnesty International launched its digital map showing the rise in the repression of protests by governments internationally as it warned that authorities are increasingly resorting to unlawful use of force and repressive legislation.
It highlighted Britain’s “draconian move to clampdown on protests.”
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families
CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Labour gains nothing from its adoption of right-wing stances on immigration, and seems instead to be deliberately paving the way for the far right to become an established force in British politics, as it has already in Europe
