By pressuring Mexico to halt oil shipments, Washington is escalating its blockade of Cuba into a direct bid for economic collapse and regime change, argues SEVIM DAGDELEN
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Remember Matthews and Collett: pick your own protests
This month, on the 50th anniversary of their Olympics protest, we must keep in mind the two athletes' career-ending action and remember that we can never wait for an ‘acceptable’ time to offend the status quo, writes ROGER McKENZIE
BLACK POWER: Wayne Collett’s 1972 protest would cost him his career
As the government quietly upgrades the role of Britain’s special forces, their growing global footprint and near-total exemption from democratic oversight should alarm us all, says ROGER McKENZIE
A society that grows accustomed to ‘undesirable’ people also grows accustomed to undesirable deaths. Minneapolis serves as a wake-up call, including for our own refugee policies, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
Recent research pushes back the date of the earliest cave art by several thousand years. ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT look into the science applied
As Labour plans a centralised National Police Service, the resignation of a chief constable over the Maccabi football ban reveals how policing, technology and narrative management converge when public order and class power are at stake, says NICK WRIGHT
Sudan’s paramilitary attacked a Chadian military garrison, killing seven soldiers and prompting the government to issue a “final warning. PAVAN KULKARNI reports
SINCE the passing of Elizabeth Windsor the country has been subjected to what can only be described as a tirade of patriotism and jingoism.
Central to this period is the notion that one can only protest against the existence of the monarchy and the desire for a socialist republic at what are deemed to be appropriate times and in ways that are considered respectful and, indeed, respectable.
Of course, many brave people have chosen to ignore the police and population-enforced restrictions.
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