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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Two black heroes of the football fields
Walter Tull and Colin Kaepernick: two different football players, a century apart, have political lessons for today, says PETER FROST
Walter Tull (left) and Colin Kaepernick (right)
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
KEEP politics out of sport — that is the all too common cry from those who are happy with the very right-wing political status quo of sport as it is.
It’s the cry of racist President Donald Trump when brave black footballers kneel for the US national anthem in protest against state violence against blacks.
It was the cry from British Cricket bureaucrats in the 1970s when Jeremy Corbyn and thousands more of us were protesting about tours by all-white South African teams upholding the obscenity of apartheid.
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