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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Echoes of the Klan in Alabama ballot
PETER FROST celebrates an election result for reason and progress in Alabama
Congress of Racial Equality and members of the All Souls Church march in memory of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing victims on September 22 1963
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
ON Christmas Eve 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee, just a few miles from the Alabama state line, six white supremacists founded the Klu Klux Klan (KKK). For the next century-and-a-half this organisation would cut a channel through US politics like a stinking open sewer.
Amazingly the Klan, and its far from proud history, is still influencing US elections like the one just held in Alabama last week.
The winning candidate, Doug Jones, spent much of his early legal career ensuring that two Klan murderers were eventually brought to justice.
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