Nuclear safety experts warn that sweeping cuts to oversight rules could undermine environmental safeguards as the White House races to bring new reactors online by 2026, says CHAUNCEY K ROBINSON
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‘We won’t die quietly’
Just Stop Oil protester STEPHANIE PRIDE gives a first-hand view of what it’s like to hit the streets in defence of the planet and its future
Just Stop Oill activists during a protest by the environmental campaigners in central London, June 8, 2023
Engels’ call for a structured, systematic, critique of capitalism and for a strategy for securing something better remains as relevant today as it did a century and a half ago, declares the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
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
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
OF THE MANY BRIDGES I’ve crossed, blocked or marched on in London over the past 30 years, it surprises me that I’ve never ventured onto Tower Bridge.
Early in the morning, it’s a busy thoroughfare for commuters; not so many cars, and, unlike Westminster Bridge, no tourists standing in the middle of the pavement taking selfies.
About a dozen people are walking slowly with orange banners, accompanied by the load blaring of horns as northbound traffic is slowed to a crawl.
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After being silenced and ejected from council meetings over Palestine, MARY MASON joined 3,000 activists from 50 countries in an ambitious attempt to break through to besieged Rafah — only to face police beatings and detention in the Egyptian desert
