Our right to protest is under attack. Recent years have seen a whole number of measures introduced by governments in Britain meant to undermine our democratic right to fight back: the jailing of Just Stop […]
What the Steady State report tells us On 16 October the Steady State organisation published a report warning that the second Trump administration in the US, “is placing the nation on a trajectory toward competitive […]
The release of Julian Assange is a win for a world-wide campaign. Journalists’ unions have been the backbone of that campaign. It is also a blow against the creeping censorship across the ‘Western democracies’ This […]
The recent killing of Chris Kaba by the police in London was the latest in a long list of tragic cases exposing the many problems in policing, including police racism, writes Deji Olayinka, South West […]
Lenin’s State and Revolution was written during the revolutionary upheavals that were taking place in Russia in 1917. By necessity, it had to be cut short, as Lenin explains at the end of the book, […]
In modern society, the term ‘state’ is used in many contexts. People might think of the ‘welfare state’ – the NHS, pensions, benefits, etc. Or they may be familiar with references to ‘state intervention’, for […]
The Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) was established in 1968 in Britain. At its inception it was a secret unit of undercover police officers created to infiltrate, monitor and record the activities of the Vietnam Solidarity […]
According to the Roman poet Juvenal, the ancient Roman emperors aimed to placate their subjects with “bread and circuses”. It would seem that the capitalist class in Britain is hoping for a similar effect with […]
The ‘spycops’ inquiry has finally opened in Britain, six years after Theresa May, then Tory home secretary, set it up. May was forced into establishing the inquiry when one ex-police spy, Peter Francis, went public […]
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