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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. Picture date: Wednesday May 22, 2024
The unnecessarily violent police intervention at a Quaker place of worship is a PR disaster and will only serve to deepen the chasm between them and the public. SYMON HILL reports
ANDREW MURRAY wonders whether recent opinion polling and a fresh local authority by-election result in Ilford are an indication that the time is ripe for the left to make inroads
Due to the actions of this government, the challenges facing those with disabilities, such as spinal cord injuries, are nigh on insurmountable, argus RUTH HUNT
General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Bizarrely, Trump’s latest attacks now include the National Zoo, but his real and racist agenda is to strip everything black from the country’s cultural institutions, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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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