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On Human Rights Day, the UK government must reflect on its own inaction and complicity
JEREMY CORBYN warns that on Human Rights Day Britain is trying to jettison its obligations under international treaties and turning its back on the most vulnerable
Have A PLEASANT FLIGHT, SIR! Refugees present Tory delegates with ‘one-way tickets’ to Rwanda during a protest outside the Conservative party annual conference on October 3 2022
Your Party’s new membership rules pose a deeper question about socialist organisation: should a party lead the working class, or be led by it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
As war engulfs Iran, many expected China to step in as a rising superpower. Instead, Beijing has chosen diplomacy over confrontation – revealing a very different vision of global leadership, argues JENNY CLEGG
The government has few aces up its sleeve when it comes to managing popular anger, argues ANDREW MURRAY
Israel's brutality in Lebanon, combined with efforts to draw the Lebanese government into negotiations, are part of a strategy to delegitimise resistance to occupation and apartheid, argues RAMZY BAROUD
KEITH FLETT looks at the state’s efforts to limit protest rights from the 19th century to today’s repression of the Palestine movement
TODAY marks International Human Rights Day. How does the British government wish to mark it?
By waging a campaign to withdraw from the European Court of Human Rights and the European Convention of Human Rights. This campaign has been frothing on the front bench for years, but it really gathered momentum after an interim judgement from the ECHR prevented an unnamed asylum-seeker from being removed to Rwanda.
Those who opposed this interim judgement complained that the asylum seekers were “illegal”. Let me be absolutely clear: there is no such thing as an illegal asylum-seeker.
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