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‘I would be more happy in Moria than in this place’
After the notorious refugee camp on the island of Lesbos burnt down in September, a replacement has now been built. But with no shower facilities, clean toilets, water system, power or sufficient food, Moria 2.0 is even worse than its predecessor. BETHANY RIELLY reports
Refugees gather outside the new camp in Kara Tepe, where residents have described inhumane conditions with no running water or sanitation facilities, as they wait to be transferred to mainland Greece
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the tension between treating children as vulnerable dependants and recognising them as citizens with rights
The tightening of protest rights reflects a broader shift toward repression in Britain’s strained liberal democracy. Socialists and trade unionists must be ready to resist further attacks on our freedoms, warns JOHN McINALLY
Until ministers stop deferring to the market and start drawing hard lines, the public will remain at the mercy of private power, says MATT KERR
As the US intensifies its economic and political pressure it is now vitally important to demand the UK government intervenes to end US aggression, writes GEOFF BOTTOMS
SEVIM DAGDELEN argues that a legal framework exists for a closure of US and Nato military base in Ramstein
AS Yasser watched Moria collapse in an orange haze, he saw a flicker of hope in the flames.
After more than a year in the notorious refugee camp on Lesbos, he thought that now, surely, Europe would have to give them a dignified home.
Four weeks on and the young refugee tells me he no longer puts hope in anyone but himself.
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