As the Stop the War Coalition holds its annual conference, ANDREW MURRAY warns that Britain’s alignment with US foreign policy is fuelling global instability and diverting billions from welfare, wages and public services
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Racism plays a role: not learning from the East is costing British lives
Instead of chauvinism towards China, we must learn from China. All anti-racists have a duty to campaign for the government to adopt the Chinese approach that saves the maximum number of lives, writes SABBY DHALU
In Britain and the US, instead of learning from China, we are seeing racism towards China.
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the tension between treating children as vulnerable dependants and recognising them as citizens with rights
The tightening of protest rights reflects a broader shift toward repression in Britain’s strained liberal democracy. Socialists and trade unionists must be ready to resist further attacks on our freedoms, warns JOHN McINALLY
Until ministers stop deferring to the market and start drawing hard lines, the public will remain at the mercy of private power, says MATT KERR
As the US intensifies its economic and political pressure it is now vitally important to demand the UK government intervenes to end US aggression, writes GEOFF BOTTOMS
SEVIM DAGDELEN argues that a legal framework exists for a closure of US and Nato military base in Ramstein
LAST Saturday we marked UN Anti-Racism Day and the 60th anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre in apartheid South Africa. The heroic struggle led by Nelson Mandela, the ANC and the massive show of international solidarity culminated in the defeat of the racist regime in South Africa.
But the most immediate issue confronting humanity today is the outbreak of Covid-19 — and anti-Chinese racism is quite literally costing people’s lives. A distinctly different approach to tackling the virus is being taken in the US and Britain to that of China, South Korea and other European counties, with deadly consequences.
In Britain and the US, instead of learning from China, we are seeing racism towards China. At the time of writing Britain’s cumulative rate of death is exceeding that of Italy, which is so far Europe’s worst affected country, and Boris Johnson’s government is still preparing for the outbreak to last until spring 2021.
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