JOHN REES looks at why the June 20 international anti-war conference is such a vital initiative
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Assange and Trump: the rule of law and beyond
Who gets locked up or set free and what the rich man’s courts can do for the working class are tricky topics for socialists living under capitalism: KEITH FLETT looks at our relationship to the rule of law
ROGER McKENZIE highlights how health workers in DRC are struggling to contain a deadly Ebola outbreak in a region already suffering conflict, aid cuts and a legacy of imperialist degradation
Associate Professor BUI QUANG TUAN explains how modernisation and growth are helping to unlock new foreign investment in the Vietnamese economy
New workplace rights are welcome, but the survival of the trade union movement will be determined not in Westminster but in workplaces across the country, argues JOHN CARSON
Nearly two decades after leaving office, the former PM is still trumpeting the same futile militarism and failed free market dogmas. The question naturally arises: why does anyone still listen to him, says ANDREW MURRAY
Very modest growth in membership serves to underline the need for a change of recruiting strategies, posits NIGEL FLANAGAN
THE opening moments of 2021 have seen a good deal of attention focused on the law.
A request by the US to extradite Julian Assange, essentially for exposing its role in the Iraq war, was turned down by a judge.
Not because it would be a fundamental attack on journalistic freedom but because incarceration in a US prison might further worsen Assange’s health, which has already been damaged by the British state keeping him locked up in Belmarsh.
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