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Bert vs the dismantled state
The draconian extension of police powers is disaster capitalism creating a new control framework for the corporate feudalism that will follow Covid-19 — and let them rule over the ruins of a climate-changed world. It's time to hit the streets, writes ALAN SIMPSON
The Tatar rebel argued that Western workers could be bought off, so instead a ‘colonial international’ must form a dictatorship over Europe and the US, ideas that led to his expulsion from the Bolsheviks and eventual execution, writes EDMUND GRIFFITHS
HEATHER WOOD reports back from another packed annual Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival, where Palestinian flags flew high and solidarity with Birmingham’s striking refuse workers was central
Robinson successfully defended his school from closure, fought for the unification of the teaching unions, mentored future trade union leaders and transformed teaching at the Marx Memorial Library, writes JOHN FOSTER
A judge in a German court ruled that the ban activity imposed on renowned Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah was unlawful, reports LEON WYSTRYCHOWSKI
At the very moment Britain faces poverty, housing and climate crises requiring radical solutions, the liberal press promotes ideologically narrow books while marginalising authors who offer the most accurate understanding of change, writes IAN SINCLAIR
WE do ourselves no favours by treating the current Policing Bill just as an outrageous assault on a public right to protest. Of course it is — but the violence targeted towards the police in Bristol (and the preceding violence by police themselves towards peaceful protesters) masks the scale of the assault on civil liberties currently underway. It is this bigger picture that should worry us most.
Disaster capitalism is racing into “surveillance and control” politics. This provides the government with cover for its continuing addiction to all the problems that created the current crisis. If the government plan succeeds, life will become immeasurably harder — for all of us.
The whole of Britain longs for coronavirus constraints to come to an end. Spring is coming. We want to say hello to each other in public again, to socialise in ways we used to regard as normal.
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