The British outsourcing giant quietly deleted mention of training US immigration agents after killings in Minneapolis intensified scrutiny of its controversial contracts. SOLOMON HUGHES reports
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Why do some LGBT rights groups regard arms dealers as allies?
Equal rights groups should not be seduced by the forces of capitalism and imperialism, writes SYMON HILL
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
By Henry Fowler, co-founder of Strike Map
By signing strategic defence agreements with Ukraine, the German government has reached a new dimension of war involvement, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
Born from exclusion and resistance, black British art has carved out creative space to tell untold stories and challenge racism, says ROGER McKENZIE
Your Party’s new membership rules pose a deeper question about socialist organisation: should a party lead the working class, or be led by it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
“TO be inclusive is the right thing to do,” declared arms dealer Roger Carr at an LGBT event earlier this year.
As chairman of BAE Systems, he said: “I’ve always stood up for what I believe in.”
It’s not difficult to find out what BAE believes in. It is one of the biggest suppliers of weapons to Saudi Arabia. In 2014, the year when Carr became chairman, the Saudi regime sentenced a 24-year-old man to 450 lashes for “promoting the vice and practice of homosexuality.”
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