As Palestine Action prisoners go weeks without food, alleging dangerous neglect and detention without trial, campaigners warn that a near-total media blackout is hiding a crisis that could turn fatal – and fuel a growing wave of public anger. ELIZABETH SHORT reports
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Step up the fight against the Tories' racist Borders and Policing Bills
The new legislation currently being put forward by the government will have a particularly devastating impact on black and brown people, writes ZITA HOLBOURNE
As the new party emerges from its founding conference with a bold socialist identity, its future hinges on whether it can provide the organisational clarity needed to turn class sentiment into class power, argues NICK WRIGHT
RICHARD BURGON MP argues the left must build on recent victories and urgently unite around a bold cost-of-living programme
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
Barred from returning home, a group of Greek Brigaders came to Britain and founded the League for Democracy in Greece – a movement that carried the flame of anti-fascist resistance from the 1930s through the cold war and beyond. ALI BASSAM ZAHID tells the story
Your Party can become an antidote to Reform UK – but only by rooting itself in communities up and down the country, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
THE POLICE BILL seeks to infringe on our civil liberties, giving increased powers to police to impose conditions on protests and cultural events — and while the Bill has an impact on many groups, black and brown people already face racial profiling and disproportionate stop and search — as well as police brutality which has led to far too many deaths at the hands of the state.
These deaths devastate families who have to become campaigners in their quest for justice, like the case of Mohamud Hassan in Wales who died after being kept in custody in a police cell overnight a year ago — and like the family of Jay Abatan who was killed by racists in Brighton and who 23 years later are still fighting for justice: the killers are known but were arrested and released and there have been collective failures by Sussex police as there were in the case of Stephen Lawrence.
So being targeted by police if you are black or brown becomes far more dangerous, because you don’t know if your life will be taken — and even if you survive an arrest, the criminal justice system hands out harsher sentences. Policing and the criminal justice system are institutionally racist.
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