TIM CROSLAND of Plan B and Defend Our Juries talks to Morning Star’s Ceren Sagir about the legal mechanisms behind Britain’s crackdown on protest rights
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A multipolar world is emerging where a number of countries of the global South are now using their growing economic power and political importance to demand reform of the post-WWII order, argues DAVID CAVENDISH
The new US administration’s policy decisions are already having seismic effects worldwide, argue ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
What we are seeing now in the policing of Gaza protests is a manifestation of an authoritarianism that the government intends to inflict on our country, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
As Gazans return to the ruins of their homes, their chants and songs and moving spirit of defiance point the way to a new Palestinian future, by and of the people, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Martin Smith speaks to general secretary of the App Drivers and Couriers Union ZAMIR DRENI about his members’ fight against the nefarious methods of exploitation by shadowy app giants like Uber and Bolt
A new Bill seeks to prevent price-gouging landlords evicting tenants under dubious grounds only to hike up the rent for the next tenant. Living Rent is campaigning hard to make sure this provision becomes law, writes ADITI JEHANGIR
STEVE SILVER tells the horrifying story of the Nazis' last act of mass barbarity when they forced tens of thousands of prisoners in the camp to march into the snow at gunpoint to hide the evidence from the advancing Red Army
WORLD WAR II ended 80 years ago, in 1945. The war lasted six years, from 1939 to 1945, though some would argue that it really began in 1937 with the Japanese invasion of China. It is indisputable, however, that the war was the deadliest in history.
Tens of millions of people died (estimates as to the number of military and civilian fatalities vary widely), of whom six million were Jews killed in the Holocaust. There was destruction of vast territories in Europe and Asia, with the Soviet Union suffering the greatest losses: around 27 million people died and over 7,000 villages and cities destroyed. And in Japan over 200,000 people — mostly civilians — died in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
By contrast, other than the attack on Pearl Harbour (a military base), the United States suffered virtually no physical damage, fewer than 500,000 military deaths and only several thousand civilian casualties, mainly of US citizens living abroad.
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