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Karen Bradley’s defence of Bloody Sunday soldiers reveals a sense of ruling class impunity
Bloody Sunday was neither a mistake, nor a reaction to hooliganism and military or political fear of IRA activity, writes ROSA GILBERT
Northern Ireland secretary Karen Bradley
While Trump threatens to send Haitian gang leaders to El Salvador's terror prison, DANNY SHAW reveals how these paramilitary groups are merely symptoms of US-backed neocolonial rule — the real terrorists are the CIA and international actors arming desperate youth to traumatise an unarmed population
Having endured 14 years of Tory austerity followed by Starmerite cuts, young voters are desperate for change — but Anas Sarwar’s refusal to differentiate from Westminster means Scottish Labour risks electoral catastrophe, writes LAUREN HARPER
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The obfuscation of Nazism’s capitalist roots has seen imperialism redeploy fascism again and again — from the killing fields of Guatemala to the war in Ukraine, writes PAWEL WARGAN
KAREN BRADLEY’S comments in defence of the Parachute Regiment soldiers responsible for Bloody Sunday were not just insensitive, they gave away the sense of impunity with which successive Westminster governments have ignored pleas for accountability, transparency and justice.
But the fact that she drew attention to the idea that British forces — the military, the Royal Ulster Constabulary and their reserve forces — were not acting outside of the law is telling.
As Frank Kitson, a senior military strategist in Northern Ireland, advised, the “law should be used as just another weapon in the government’s arsenal.”
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