The new Prime Minister must abandon decades of automatic support for US foreign policy, which makes us all less safe, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP
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Fortress Europe and the refugee crisis
It is the EU’s own policies that have caused the flow of desperate migrants that politicians wring their hands over. Working-class humanity and solidarity will now be key, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
Media Lens at 25: David Cromwell and David Edwards reflect on a quarter-century of media criticism, explaining why independent journalism is more important than ever
by Weyman Bennett and Maz’s family
The International Court of Justice has delivered its clearest ruling yet that the right to strike is protected under international law, write Professor TONIA NOVITZ, Professor KEITH EWING and Lord JOHN HENDY KC
Emergency phone alerts could help Britain respond to rising wildfire risk, but Australia’s experience suggests they work best as part of a broader strategy, write ELLIOT CONVERY-FISHER and KATE PARKINS
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
SIX years ago the European Union added its voice to the global popular outrage at Donald Trump’s plan to build a wall between the US and Mexico.
Trump’s wall was a motif for all that is wrong with his brand of nativist reaction. European governments marketed themselves as the liberal internationalist counterforce to the “illiberal democrats” who saw Trump as their champion.
Since then, Trump failed to get re-elected and the EU and its component states have built over 1,000 kilometres of wall and razor fencing on their borders and internally.
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