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The move against alleged PKK members that sparked outrage as a community centre in north London was raided last year has now come to trial, writes TONY BURKE, but in the meantime, the peace process abroad has changed the situation almost entirely
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We cannot understand today’s world without understanding the rise of China – and we cannot understand China without understanding how it was shaped by the second world war, writes JENNY CLEGG
NICK WRIGHT reports from Italy, where 80 cities saw Gaza strikes as unions paralysed transport and massive crowds clashed with police in Milan — but France is also kicking off, and Westminster, in a very different way, is facing a crisis of legitimacy too
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THE United States can lead the fight against corporations and the richest 1 per cent that use shell companies and tax havens, which are located everywhere from the Cayman Islands to South Dakota, says Chuck Collins, a US expert on the issue, but only “if we get our house in order” through a crackdown on them at home.
But it’s going to take a lot to do that, he adds.
“The wealth defence industry says what they’re doing is legal,” including secret tax haven banks and law firms that set up shady accounts for the rich, Collins explains in an interview with People’s World. He’s the director of the Institute for Policy Studies’ Programme on Inequality and the Common Good.
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