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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Venal governments and weak parliamentary oppositions, along with great social discontent, create serious questions for the left to grapple with, says KEVIN OVENDEN
HAD ENOUGH: Culture workers in Paris on Thursday with banners reading ‘Scarified culture,’ and ‘disqualified government’
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
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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
A FINANCIAL technocrat is to form a government of national unity following the fall of another Italian administration and to avoid elections.
It could be a decade ago, when EU internal market commissioner Mario Monti was summoned to head a compliant Italian government at the peak of the eurozone crisis following the great financial crash of 2008.
This time it is Mario Draghi, until recently the head of the European Central Bank. Again unelected, he was central to imposing the Europe-wide austerity of the 2010s.
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