A new generation of right-wing politicians have shifted from promoting deregulation to championing anti-migrant politics warns SOLOMON HUGHES
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Sinn Fein MP Conor Murphy examines the implications of the Haass talks in Northern Ireland
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The US relationship with Israel has evolved into a strategic liability, argues RAMZY BAROUD
A champion motorcyclist, trade union organiser and communist, Clem Beckett went from Britain’s speedway tracks to the battlefields of Spain, where he gave his life resisting Franco’s forces at Jarama. GEOFF BOTTOMS pays tribute to this remarkable anti-fascist
The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
Claiming to ease a fertiliser shortage, the Trump administration has suspended tariffs on Moroccan phosphate imports – deepening US support for the Morocco’s control over Sahrawi territory, writes LUKE ROTELLO
The current and well-publicised difficulties in the political process in the north of Ireland go to the heart of the issues and difficulties involved in making political change and progress in a post-conflict situation.
The focus for this has been the recent all-party talks chaired by US diplomats Richard Haass and Meghan O'Sullivan, and their subsequent proposals to deal with contentious issues of flags and emblems, contentious Orange parades and dealing with the legacy of the past.
The failure of the leadership of political unionism to accept the very reasonable compromise deal which was on the table and their resistance to take forward progressive change is also underpinned by the failure of the British government, which essentially allows intransigence to continue.
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