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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We need to rise to the task of defeating the global rise of racism
There must be no concessions to any form of racism or anti-migrant scapegoating, says SABBY DHALU
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
AS many of us watched in horror last Monday as England football players faced racist chants and nazi salutes, it provided a chilling microcosm of what has taken place across Europe and the US — the growth of an emboldened and ever more vicious far right alongside an epidemic of hate crime.
Just as in Britain, where the “Democratic” Football Lads Alliance marches were followed by attacks on places of worship, the evidence in Vasil Levski Stadium of an organised group of fascists intent on spreading hatred was all too clear.
The horrific attacks in Christchurch, Pittsburgh and, most recently, at a synagogue and a Turkish shop in Germany on Yom Kippur, are just a few examples of anti-semitic and Islamophobic far-right terrorist attacks that have now become regular.
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