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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The women who stood up to the fishing barons of Hull
PETER FROST is delighted that after half a century, praise and recognition are given to a group of remarkable working-class heroines
HIGH TIME: (Below) The mural painted by Belfast artist Mark Ervine and Kev Largey in early 2016 depicts Lillian ‘Big Lil’ Bilocca and is situated in a prominent position on Anlaby Road one of the main east-west arterial routes
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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
HALF a century ago in the opening months of 1968 some of the worst ever winter storms hit the Icelandic fishing grounds.
Three Hull trawlers were lost and a total of 58 crew members died.
British life was very different 50 years ago. Fish and chips was the most popular, indeed the only take-away food available. The Hull trawler fleet was the biggest fishing fleet in the world and deep sea fishing in Arctic waters was the most dangerous work anywhere on the face of the globe.
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