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Priti authoritarian, but Priti vulnerable: we can make a difference that could save Julian Assange
The Home Secretary’s decision to green-light the extradition of Julian Assange needs to be overturned by mass resistance, argues JOHN REES
Home Secretary Priti Patel
There is no justification for spending colossal amounts of money on so-called defence — sacrificing our education, health and transport while they’re at it, says BERT SCHOUWENBURG
GEOFFREY BELL looks at the curiously unsupportive stance of British progressives of the Easter Rising
On the eve of the Communist Party of Ireland’s 27th congress JIMMY CORCORAN reiterates the principles that guided James Connolly
But that’s OK, says MATT KERR, as talking is what will help us get things done
Why a defeat of the miners still haunts Britain’s rulers, says PHIL KATZ
IF YOU have been living on one of the remoter planets of the known universe it will have come as a shock that the Home Secretary Priti Patel agreed last Friday to the US government’s demand that Julian Assange be extradited to face a trial which could land him with a 175-year prison sentence.
But for earth-dwellers, particularly those that have been following the Home Secretary’s wholesale attack on civil liberties, it will have been less of a surprise.
Patel and the Johnson government have plenty of reasons for disliking those who expose warmongering and corporate greed, as WikiLeaks did in successive releases for which the US now wish to charge Assange under its 1917 Espionage Act.
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