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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Even in the camps nazis could not kill the spirit
PETER FROST believes we can’t have too many reminders of the Holocaust
Dance to survive: Jewish comedian Esther Philipse on stage in Westerbork concentration camp in 1943
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
THE shocking results of a recent survey that revealed 5 per cent of UK adults do not believe the Holocaust took place, and one in 12 believes its scale has been exaggerated, made me determined to do what I can to educate people about these most horrendous events in world history.
Are these results simply a side effect of the extreme right trying to re-establish itself; part of the deliberate confusion from some that portrays any criticism of modern day Israel and its treatment of Palestinians as anti-semitism; or just another failure of Mr Gove’s school history syllabus being more concerned with British kings and queens than with real history?
In one sense I am simply trying to catch up with my granddaughter Lizzie who, while in the sixth form, won a UN Holocaust essay competition, visited Auschwitz and became a Holocaust ambassador talking to many other young people lest they forget the horrors of this darkest period of world history.
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