DIANE ABBOTT explodes the anti-migrant myths perpetrated by cynical politicians and an irresponsible mass media
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‘The repression we’re facing is the action of a bully who knows it’s weak’
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
SPEAKING OUT: Tim and Ceren talk on the Morning Star’s YouTube channel
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the government’s proposals to further limit the right of citizens to trial by jury
As we mark the anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, JOHN WIGHT reflects on the enormity of the US decision to drop the atom bombs
For 80 years, survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings have pleaded “never again,” for anyone. But are we listening, asks Linda Pentz Gunter
Labour councillor PAUL DONOVAN wonders why the right-wing party gets so much more media attention than it seems to merit
SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
With what seems like a recent wave of crackdowns on protests and record-long sentences being imposed on peaceful activists, would you say that sentences are now harsher than they’ve ever been?
Yeah, in any of our living memories, that is definitely true. [There is a] reversal from supposedly [Britain] being a champion of human rights internationally, to now being, according to research, the global leader in the repression of peaceful people. It’s a stunning turnaround. And the scary thing is the lack of attention on it.
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