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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Rosalind Franklin gets some of the recognition she deserves
Too often women of science are hidden from history, says PETER FROST
Rosalind Franklin
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
ROSALIND Franklin was a woman scientist who played an integral role in the discovery of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). It was Franklin’s X-ray images that allowed James Watson and Francis Crick to decipher its double-helix shape.
Franklin died from ovarian cancer in 1958, aged just 37, and her early death as well as her gender meant she never received the recognition given to her male peers. Watson and Crick received the Nobel Prize in 1962 for their work based fundamentally on Franklin’s foundation work.
Now at last Rosalind Franklin will get some of the recognition she has long deserved when the new UK-assembled rover that will be sent to Mars in 2020 will bear her name.
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