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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Abuse in the Church of England
This first instalment of a report by PETER FROST into church abuse looks at the Anglicans. Next week we investigate the Roman Catholics
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
THE Church of England has always put its own reputation above the needs of victims of sexual abuse.
Twenty-odd years ago it asked the former high court judge Elizabeth Butler-Sloss to investigate allegations of an Establishment cover-up of child sex abuse in the church.
Amazingly, she decided that it was more important to protect the reputation of the church over providing justice for the victims.
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