The far right feels comfortable openly saying the most racist, extreme things imaginable and harassing left events in ways unseen in living memory — we desperately need an anti-fascist Labour Party to replace the current appeasement regime, writes ANDREW MURRAY
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Trump announces Guantanamo Bay base expansion to detain up to 30,000 migrants
The project has caused indignation in Cuba, which claims sovereignty over the base, occupied more than 100 years ago by the US military, writes PABLO MERIGUET
MEMORANDUM: Trump is seeking to expand the notorious base
Organised workers at the notoriously anti-union global giant are scoring victory after victory, and now international bodies are pitching in to finally force this figurehead of corporate capitalism to give in to unionisation, writes EMILIO AVELAR
My time working on the Stephen Lawrence campaign taught me a lot about how racism festers in alienation and ignorance — I know first-hand why educators, especially people of colour, must lead the fight against race hate, argues MARC WADSWORTH
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
CEREN SAGIR reports from the CND fringe meeting during the Labour conference, where speakers slammed a system where £99 billion nuclear arsenal replacement costs are ring-fenced while the two-child benefit cap remains
CND’s Stop the Nuclear Nightmare conference in Glasgow will be an important step towards destroying the false arguments that weapons and war spending will lead to job creation and prosperity, rather than bringing Armageddon closer, writes SIMON BARROW
ON JANUARY 29, the White House directed the Defence and Homeland Security Departments to expand the capacity at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in order to receive 30,000 migrant detainees.
In a press conference the following day, President Donald Trump cited his distrust in the nations of origin to reliably accept the forced return of their migrants, as a key factor in the expansion of Guantanamo Bay.
Cuba has strongly condemned Trump’s decision, criticising the US presence on Guantanamo Bay entirely, which it considers an illegal occupation. The base has historically detained refugees, and more recently, alleged terrorists without formal charges.
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