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Where have all the insects gone?
PETER FROST notices fewer bugs on his windscreen and decides to investigate
Engels’ call for a structured, systematic, critique of capitalism and for a strategy for securing something better remains as relevant today as it did a century and a half ago, declares the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
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
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
IF YOU drive a car you may well have noticed fewer insects splatted on your windscreen after a summer drive.
It is just one of the indications that British insects are finding it harder and harder to thrive.
Matt Shadlow, chief executive of British insect conservation charity Buglife, explains: “This is part of the wholesale loss of small animals in recent decades.
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