As the Stop the War Coalition holds its annual conference, ANDREW MURRAY warns that Britain’s alignment with US foreign policy is fuelling global instability and diverting billions from welfare, wages and public services
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ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the tension between treating children as vulnerable dependants and recognising them as citizens with rights
The tightening of protest rights reflects a broader shift toward repression in Britain’s strained liberal democracy. Socialists and trade unionists must be ready to resist further attacks on our freedoms, warns JOHN McINALLY
Until ministers stop deferring to the market and start drawing hard lines, the public will remain at the mercy of private power, says MATT KERR
As the US intensifies its economic and political pressure it is now vitally important to demand the British government intervene to end US aggression, writes GEOFF BOTTOMS
SEVIM DAGDELEN argues that a legal framework exists for a closure of US and Nato military base in Ramstein
My mum was one of five close sisters. They would get together for every high day and holiday. I still have fond memories of these gatherings from my very early years.
As I grew older I became aware of a shadow hanging over these family parties. The elephant not in the room as it were, was the only boy child alongside those five girls. He was my mysterious uncle Edward who it seemed to me was never invited, never came and was rarely mentioned at these gatherings.
On the very few occasions his name did come up it was (if our editor will allow what some may think a racist epithet) as the black sheep of the family.
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