From Chartists and Suffragettes to Irish republicans and today’s Palestine activists, the treatment of hunger strikers exposes a consistent pattern in how the British state represses those it deems political prisoners, says KEITH FLETT
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The EU Leave vote should not be subverted by extreme anti-democrats
DOUG NICHOLLS warns of new and urgent dangers arising from the opposition to Brexit
In the aftermath of the illegal US operation against Venezuela, a deliberate misinformation campaign has been waged to sow doubt about the survival of the country’s revolution, warns MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS
A statement from the Parti Communiste Francais
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines our laws concerning the treatment of animals and their rights
THE Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) welcomes demonstrations across Iran, which have put pressure upon the theocratic dictatorship, but warns against intervention by the United States to force Iran in a particular direction
In a stark warning of things to come JOHN ELLISON invokes the ideological splitting of hairs that weakened any and all opposition to the unravelling WWI when 22 million of mostly Europeans lost their lives and 23 million were maimed
JEREMY CORBYN was quite right to say in an interview with the German Der Spiegel magazine that Brexit cannot be stopped and Keir Starmer was quite wrong to contradict him almost immediately.
Parliament in its current form, especially the House of Commons, is the product of a long battle for the truly universal franchise for all those over 18.
The battle for parliamentary democracy started in 1649 and ended in 1969. Like it or loathe it, the British people have invested their hopes and sense of democracy in it.
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