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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They made a profit from the Holocaust
PETER FROST investigates some of today’s well-known companies that made money from the Holocaust
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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 WE commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day on Sunday January 27, it is appropriate that we remember the millions of people who died in the nazi death camps. The nazis built these camps across Germany, Austria and Poland.
The camps brought death to many groups of people hated by the nazis. First were the Jews of course and millions of them perished in the death camps as part of what Hitler and his Nazi Party described as the final solution.
As well as Jews, the nazis sent many other groups to death in the camps including Russians, Poles, Ukrainians, and Serbs.
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