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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Walter Tull – still not recognised one hundred years after his heroic death
PETER FROST remembers the first black professional footballer and the first black British Army officer to command white troops. He died one hundred years ago
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
I HAVE written before about Walter Tull, who was one of Britain’s first black professional footballers and a first world war hero — the first ever black officer to lead white British troops into battle.
He died exactly one hundred years ago this Sunday.
The one thing that has always puzzled me and many others is why Walter Tull has never been as well recognised as his many achievements deserve. Why did he never get the Military Cross he was nominated for twice and clearly so richly deserved?
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