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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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
Well it’s reshuffle time again, and in this instance it appears to have been the most incendiary game of musical chairs since the last al-Qaida office party.
Drafting in new blood to a deeply unpopular party is hardly a radical concept in the year before an election but they seem to have gone the traditional Tory route with most of it on the walls and ceiling.
Yep, when in doubt go for the purge option. That seems to be the Cameronian mantra.
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