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
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Get out and vote against the far right
We must not boycott an election where the new, far-right Ukip, the old sordid Farage, and the thug Tommy Robinson are standing, wriote SABBY DHALU, Stand Up To Racism Co-Convenor
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 British government intervene 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
IN THE early summer of 2009, Nick Griffin, then leader of the fascist British National Party, was elected Member of the European Parliament. He had received 8 per cent of the vote share in the North West region, where less than 32 per cent of the electorate had turned out to cast their ballot.
A major rise the BNP’s profile immediately followed, with appearances across the mainstream media including Question Time and Channel 4 News, where he claimed, “There is no such thing as a black Welshman. You can have a black Briton; you can’t have a black Welshman. Welsh is about people who live in Wales since the end of the last ice age.”
Ten years later, the far-right Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (calling himself Tommy Robinson) is standing in the same seat.
An ex-member of the BNP himself, he founded the English Defence League and attempted to launch an English version of Germany’s anti-Muslim Pegida. He now stands at the head of a resurgent and violent far-right linked to fascists across the globe such as Generation Identity and wealthy US backers like Steve Bannon, who has openly embraced him as the British section of his international far-right project.
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