ANSELM ELDERGILL looks at the legality of the wars in the Middle East and the means used to fight them. It is said that truth is the first casualty of war, so what is the truth with regard to the legality of America’s and Israel’s wars in Iran, Palestine and Lebanon?
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PHIL KATZ explains how ‘Cultures in Resistance’ is forging a new cultural manifesto
As world leaders posture and local politicians bore, voters are left with a grim choice: despair, disengage — or start imagining something better, says MATT KERR
CARLOS MARTINEZ reports on China’s role in helping Cuba develop self-sufficiency in renewable energy, which would shield it from the sort of pain Donald Trump is inflicting with his oil blockade
JAYNE FISHER on why the government’s latest amendments to the Crime & Policing Bill, which returns to the Commons on Tuesday, is a serious threat to our freedoms
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The Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign has grown in support over the years and there can be no doubt as to the dedication of those who set up the campaign or those who support it, writes Chris Kitchen, general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers.
This campaign has gained validity from the released cabinet papers which clearly show the political involvement of the then Tory government in causing the 1984/85 miners’ strike.
The campaign’s aim to have a public inquiry into what happened at Orgreave on June 18, 1984, has been fiercely resisted by the Tory Party in government and the question has to be asked, why?
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