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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Unelectable and unspeakable but still chasing the inedible
PETER FROST has been out with the hunt
Anti-hunt campaigners outside the National Trust AGM at the Steam Museum in Swindon, where National Trust members have narrowly voted down a proposal to ban legal hunting on the organisation's land
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
We all know that Prime Minister Theresa May has always been in favour of fox-hunting because she has often told us so.
In return, no less than 84 per cent of the British public have told her and other hunting fans in Westminster that they do not agree with those outdated opinions.
Overwhelmingly the general public wants Labour’s 2004 ban of hunting with dogs to stay firmly in place.
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