State machinery was widely employed to secure favourable outcomes in India’s recent regional elections against three progressive regional governments who dared to challenge Narendra Modi, asserts VIJAY PRASHAD
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A woman is arrested during a Kill the Bill protest, London April 2021
It is too early to assume a US defeat in Iran — we must prepare for a long anti-war struggle, argues JOHN ROSS
ROGER McKENZIE says the ANC needs to respect South Africa’s Communists and their decision to stand independently at elections
KENNY MacASKILL remembers the woman who first translated The Communist Manifesto into English
The election offers a critical chance to shape the future of pay, care and community provision in Wales, says Unison’s JESS TURNER
As Scotland heads to the polls, the main parties offer variations on the same script, says MATT KERR
THE Policing Bill now being sent back to Lords and on its way to becoming law, will ramp up police powers to unprecedented levels.
Firstly, it will give the police virtually limitless powers to declare demonstrations illegal and arrest all those in attendance, on the flimsiest of pretexts. Up until now, police could only ban demonstrations if there was a serious threat of public disorder or criminal damage.
This new Bill will allow them to do so on the grounds of such vague criteria as “serious inconvenience” or even “serious annoyance.”
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