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Opium poppies in Van Dieman’s Land
PETER FROST visits the island that grows half the world’s legal crop of opium poppies
Engels’ call for a structured, systematic, critique of capitalism and for a strategy for securing something better remains as relevant today as it did a century and a half ago, declares the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
As the Stop the War Coalition holds its annual conference, ANDREW MURRAY warns that Britain’s alignment with US foreign policy is fuelling global instability and diverting billions from welfare, wages and public services
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
THE story of illegal street drugs like heroin is a sad one. In starts with poverty-line farmers who grow the crops. They get rock-bottom prices for their harvest and the workers who process the plant material into the useable drugs don’t get paid much either.
It’s the professional big-time gangsters, or corrupt politicians, the ones that are never seen or caught, who make the massive fortunes. By the time their obscene product reaches the streets the drug is back in the hands of the very poor again.
Mostly these are addicts, so poor that they must turn to crime or prostitution to pay for their next fix and the awful circle is complete.
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ROGER McKENZIE argues that the BRI represents a choice between treating humans as commodities or as equals — an essential project when, aside from China’s efforts, hundreds of millions worldwide are trapped in poverty
Olive oil remains a vital foundation of food, agriculture and society, storing power in the bonds of solidarity. Though Palestinians are under attack, they continue to press forward write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
