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Keir Starmer must not help the Tories to pass their Anti-Boycott Bill
The Labour leader could use the ‘wash-up’ period in the run-up to the general election to push through anti-democratic legislation to prevent solidarity with Palestine, warns PETER LEARY
Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer speaking in Westminster, London, after a General Election was called for July 4, May 22, 2024
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is pouring €11.5bn into the Kiev swamp, blocking Trump’s peace plan, and pushing Nato right up to Russia’s borders – no matter if it costs hundreds of thousands of lives, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
The 2025 Budget shores up the PM’s political position with headline-grabbing welfare U-turns, but with no improvements on offer to declining public services or living standards, writes MICHAEL BURKE
The unifying victory of Irish progressive forces in the presidential campaign should be a salutary lesson to the left in this country, argues MARY GRIFFITHS CLARKE
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
A November 15 protest in Mexico – driven by a right-wing social-media operation – has been miscast as a mass uprising against President Sheinbaum. In reality, the march was small, elite-backed and part of a wider attempt to sow unrest, argues DAVID RABY
TODAY the curtain closes on Rishi Sunak’s disastrous Tory government. Ahead of the general election, the government is now busy trying to rush through remaining legislation which will otherwise fall when parliament is dissolved.
To do this, it needs agreement from the opposition front bench to speed up the normal parliamentary process. Keir Starmer must not help the Tories to pass their toxic Anti-Boycott Bill.
The government’s s Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill, better known as the Anti-Boycott Bill, threatens to erode local democracy, restrict freedom of expression and undermine campaigns for social and climate justice.
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