A recent Financial Times column on the Iran war exemplifies how the Western elite worldview is more concerned with strategy and power than legality or human life, writes ANDREW MURRAY
The rebirth of Rock Against Racism
STEPHEN ARNELL hails the comeback of RAR for the 21st century in the form of Love Music Hate Racism
Rock band, Hard-Fi, perform at the Love Music Hate Racism festival in Victoria Park, London, April 2008
STEVE BISHOP considers the prospects for a settlement of the conflict and how the demands of both sides are being viewed
The PM is drawing cautious distance from Donald Trump over Iran – but history suggests Britain’s support may run deeper than it appears, just as it did during the Vietnam war, says KEITH FLETT
Years of austerity and political failure have left classrooms overcrowded and staff overstretched – now educators are organising across roles to demand change, says ED HARLOW
While US restrictions tighten economic and social pressures on Cuba, international allies and grassroots campaigns are stepping in to support the island’s resilience, writes BERNARD REGAN, secretary of Cuba Solidarity Campaign
Labour’s approach to Scotland reveals a long-running tension between rhetoric and reality, warns PAULINE BRYAN
“For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction,” — Sir Isaac Newton.
WITH the recent Summer of Crypto-Fascist Riots, it’s perhaps heartening that far-right agitation prompted a swift, semi-spontaneous rebuttal in the form of mass anti-racist counter and pre-emptive demonstrations.
‘Oh Farage! Up Yours!’
After X-Ray Spex’s “Oh Bondage! Up Yours!”
And with this two-fingered salute to the Faragist tendency we can perhaps also welcome the return of 1970s British phenomenon Rock Against Racism, in the shape of Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR). I’m just about old enough to remember RAR and the galvanising effect the organisation had on some of the formerly apathetic youth in the 1970s and early ’80s.
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