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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Go to your local soup kitchen this winter, even if you don’t need to
It’s important to show solidarity with those using foodbanks – to show them that they are not outcasts, says ADRIAN HEALD
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 British government intervene 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
I KNOW IT sounds absurd, but many people I speak to who need the help of foodbanks or soup kitchens are embarrassed to go there, often because they come from a generation where there is stigma attached.
There should be no stigma towards people in poverty — the stigma is with the government that relentlessly pushed austerity on us.
Nevertheless, we are still fighting an uphill struggle with people being in need, being in working poverty, living off a state pension (which is not a benefit, it is something they paid for through their tax) who consider it shameful.
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