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Foreign Secretary David Lammy ahead of the Australia-UK Ministerial Consultations (AUKMIN) meeting at Lancaster House in London, December 16, 2024
SIR KEIR STARMER has finally stood up to Donald Trump — but only by rejecting a demand from the incoming US administration that Shamima Begum be allowed to return to Britain.
Foreign Secretary David Lammy ruled out a return for Ms Begum, with the government’s desire to appease the racist right apparently trumping its usual subservience to Washington.
Sebastian Gorka, incoming counter-terrorism chief in the Trump team, is demanding that British members of Islamic State presently imprisoned in Syria be returned to Britain.
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
The Trump government is seizing overseas students from their homes and campuses and even off the streets, with no legal grounds and no due process, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
