The 25th anniversary meeting of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation in the Kyrgyz capital may offer a glimmer of hope that international relations do not need to be defined by endless confrontation, writes KENNY COYLE
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Scientists don’t work in ‘ivory towers’ – they work with the political reality they perceive around them, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL
LOOKING AHEAD: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine’s newly opened Pandemic Institute which will offer world-leading clinical and research expertise across all stages of the pandemic lifecycle, with the aim of accelerating the global response to pandemics
The artist, who has just died, is embedded in the subconscious of the Palestinian people
The five young men killed in the A66 crash were responsible for a devastating tragedy — but the crash should force us to ask difficult questions about wider society, argues RENATA MEDEIROS MIRRA
Britain funds the policing of black culture 16 times better than the culture itself. The Diamond Jubilee is the moment to end that, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite Andy Burnham’s declaration defending the continued partition of the island, all major international and internal trends are converging to make Irish reunification inevitable
Humans are part of the ‘animal kingdom’ – and of nature in general – but also distinct from it and labour (work) is part of what makes us unique, declared Engels. His insights 150 years ago into how our species came to be and how we differ from the rest of nature, are as important today as they were then, says the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights general secretary GAWAIN LITTLE discusses the impact of the US-Israeli war on the Iranian people and economy
OVER the past week, a great festival of working people and activists have gathered in Glasgow alongside Cop26 for the People’s Summit.
The Star has done well in giving only perfunctory coverage to the rote machinations of the “climate glitterati” in the conference halls, choosing instead to give more space to the real sites of intellectual activity in the city — the places where activists and workers have convened to speak to each other.
Over the past few weeks, members of the Science and Society team have been privileged to take part in discussions about science and politics: first at an event hosted by the Marx Memorial Library and also at a People’s Summit event run by the Cut-Through Collective. We’ve been able to join in valuable discussions about how science is actually practised.
After a bifurcating education system that divides people entering university into “scientists” and “non-scientists,” the model of academic science is a hierarchical pyramid.
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