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The French Global Security Law, which makes it illegal to film police officers, is part of a rightward tilt by Macron, says DENNIS BROE
SINISTER: A protester holds a board reading: ‘Who protects us from the police state?’ during a demo against the Bill on police images, in Paris last Saturday
In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
AGAINST a backdrop of street protest — even in the midst of a Covid lockdown — and increasing police violence and repression, France passed the draconian Global Security Law this week, which could make it an offence punishable by a year in jail and a €45,000 fine to film, post and identify police officers committing violent actions.
Representatives of President Emmanuel Macron’s LREM party, whose title La Republic En Marche claims that they are concerned about rights and liberties, on Tuesday morning would have seen footage on the news of the police brutally rousting homeless people from Republique, the square commemorating these rights.
On Tuesday afternoon they voted in favour of the law, claiming that there was no contradiction between the two events.
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