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Behind India’s Iron Curtain
In this week in 2019, India enforced a communications blackout in Jammu and Kashmir. A new writing project chronicles the crackdown which followed and how its techniques of oppression were borrowed from Israel’s occupation of Palestine.
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Feeding the fascist machine
Britain’s political establishment has spent decades demonising refugees and Muslims. Defeating the far right doesn’t stop with ending the violent riots on the streets—the politics that inspired them must be beaten too.
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Labour versus International law
The ICJ ruling finding Israel’s occupation unlawful makes the first test for David Lammy’s ‘progressive realism’ clear: either Labour opposes dispossession and genocide, or it is complicit.
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How Britain made Paul Robeson a socialist
Pioneering black singer Paul Robeson was born on this day in 1898. One of America’s great radical figures, it was his encounters with Britain’s labour movement which inspired his socialist and anti-imperialist politics.
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Corporate power is killing the planet
In the 1950s, a system of corporate courts was created to allow Western businesses to sue the Global South for threatening their profits—and now fossil fuel giants are using it to stop any country from fighting the climate crisis.
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Jeremy Corbyn: ‘Look at Gaza—our political class only pays lip service to human rights’
Today marks 75 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But, as Gaza shows, it is being buried under the rubble along with the human beings whose rights it was written to protect, writes Jeremy Corbyn.
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The road to freedom runs through Palestine
Far from being a fringe obsession for a tiny minority, the Palestinian solidarity movement spurs on demands for social justice across the globe—including in Britain.
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Miliband’s masterpiece
Fifty years after it was published, The State in Capitalist Society remains indispensable for any socialist movement with ambitions of government.
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Miliband’s masterpiece
Fifty years after it was published, The State in Capitalist Society remains indispensable for any socialist movement with ambitions of government.