From the 1917 Balfour Declaration to today’s F-35 sales, Britain’s historical responsibility has now evolved into support for the present-day outright genocide. But our solidarity movement is growing too, writes BEN JAMAL
The Tories are launching a new authoritarian government
Looking at the changes to the law that have already happened and those now proposed together, it is clear that we have not faced such a drastic attack on our rights and freedoms since we gained the vote, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
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DIANE ABBOTT MP warns Starmer’s newly declared war on foreigners and scroungers won’t fix housing or services — only class struggle against austerity can do that, and defeat Farage in the process
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THE series of Bills outlined in the Queen’s Speech show that this government marks a radical departure from its predecessors — a radical shift rightwards.
Taken together the legislation proposed and laws already enacted make this a new type of authoritarian government in this country, one we have not seen previously in the era of the universal franchise.
No government which has Boris Johnson at its head and Priti Patel as its Home Secretary can be expected to be a champion of civil rights or a guardian against an over-mighty state. But this is something quite new.
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