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A dangerous Bill that limits freedom of conscience
The anti-boycott Bill ultimately acts as a way of gagging public bodies and must be opposed, writes Labour peer PAULINE BRYAN
THE RIGHT TO OBJECT: Over 400 trade unionists including health workers, teachers, hospitality workers, academics and artists blockade weapons manufacturer BAE Systems in Rochester, Kent, which provides components for military aircraft being used by Israeli forces in the bombardment of Gaza
Some thinkers and authors on the right are openly discussing the possibility that the historically successful party of the British ruling class may be exhausted
Class struggle is the motor of history but the direction and detail of change at any time and place is the outcome of many factors, suggests the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
Merseyside’s proud tradition of internationalism is being kept alive through events organised by trade unionists and allies in the region, writes ROBERT MACDONALD
JOHNNIE HUNTER reports from the German Communist Party’s (DKP) weekly Unsere Zeit (Our Newspaper)-organised Peace Days festival in Berlin last weekend
Les Preger was one of Manchester’s first volunteers to volunteer in support of republican Spain, writes his daughter JANEY PREGER
TONY BURKE surveys the shifting political landscape and the challenges Labour needs to address if it is to prevail in the 2028 federal elections
OVER the past few years we have seen many Bills in the House of Lords that show a worrying disregard for humanity, but the anti-boycott Bill is the first, as I far as I know, that actually instructs public bodies to disregard morality.
If we have to rely on the moral compass of this government to set standards, then it will be set at a very low bar.
We should not be surprised because Conservative governments have form for being on the wrong side of history. Just two examples:
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