As Colombia approaches presidential elections next year, the US decision to decertify the country in the war on drugs plays into the hands of its allies on the political right, writes NICK MacWILLIAM
The Nationality & Borders Bill strikes fear, breeds suspicion and undermines community cohesion
The move against alleged PKK members that sparked outrage as a community centre in north London was raided last year has now come to trial, writes TONY BURKE, but in the meantime, the peace process abroad has changed the situation almost entirely
A new report points a way to overcome complacent framing of climate issues, ‘by sparking a wider public reckoning with climate realities,’ and reconnecting with working-class people. IAN SINCLAIR reports
We cannot understand today’s world without understanding the rise of China – and we cannot understand China without understanding how it was shaped by the second world war, writes JENNY CLEGG
NICK WRIGHT reports from Italy, where 80 cities saw Gaza strikes as unions paralysed transport and massive crowds clashed with police in Milan — but France is also kicking off, and Westminster, in a very different way, is facing a crisis of legitimacy too
Escalating anti-China rhetoric from the West has a clear purpose – to manufacture consent for the new cold war, and potentially a hot one, argues CARLOS MARTINEZ
THE Nationality and Borders Bill is currently making its way through Parliament and the House of Lords on its way to becoming law.
Let’s be in no doubt and call it what it is — a further extension of the hostile environment policies the government has been peddling since 2010.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has condemned the Bill — a Bill which is at odds with any notion of common decency, democracy, mutual respect, liberty and the rule of law: fundamental British values.
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