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Columbia students following the proud tradition of anti-Vietnam war forbears
On campuses all over the US, activists are amplifying the anguished cry of the Palestinians, write ALISON BANVILLE and JAMES FLOREY
DEFIANT: Demonstrators hold their ground near a main gate at Columbia University in New York, as New York City police officers move to clear the area after a campus building was taken over by protesters earlier in the day
While working people face austerity, arms companies enjoy massive government contracts, writes ARTHUR WEST, exposing how politicians exaggerate the Russian threat to justify spending on a sector that has the lowest employment multiplier
ANYA COOK reports from the Newcastle citizens’ assembly, where over 240 people gathered to create a people’s manifesto ahead of next year’s local elections – part of former mayor Jamie Driscoll’s Majority movement
While claiming to target fraud, Labour’s snooping Bill strips benefit recipients of privacy rights and presumption of innocence, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE, warning that algorithms with up to 25 per cent error rates could wrongfully investigate and harass millions of vulnerable people
Real security comes from having a secure base at home — Keir Starmer’s reckless and renegade decision to get Britain deeper into the proxy war against Russia is as dangerous as it is wasteful, writes SALLY SPIERS
The plan is to stigmatise and destabilise South Africa in preparation for breaking it up while creating a confused and highly racialised atmosphere around immigration in the US to aid in denying rights to non-white refugees, explains EMILE SCHEPERS
ALAN SIMPSON warns that Starmer’s triangulation strategy will fail just as New Labour’s did, with each rightward move by Labour pushing Tories further right
JF: BACK IN 2010 while working as a central government press and communications officer, I interviewed one Manouche Shafik, then head of the now defunct Department for International Development.
Fast-forward 14 years and I see her name again, this time at the heart of the maelstrom surrounding the current US student protests in support of the Palestinians that are gripping the country.
Shafik, now president of Columbia University, called in the New York Police Department (NYPD) last week to break up the encampment that has inspired a host of other protests on campuses all over the US. The charming lady I met, who gave me a delightful interview on how to achieve a good work/life balance, and whose CV includes posts as illustrious as deputy governor of the Bank of England, deputy managing director of the IMF, and vice-president of the World Bank, now finds herself besieged by students and faculty alike as the wave of protest rages on.
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