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  Winstanley: Manchester university divests from firms complicit in Israeli occupation

  Activists said it was “a colossal win for the Palestine solidarity movement in Britain” and a “watershed moment.”
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  Cockburn: The Government’s Failed Track-and-Trace System is a Disaster for England

  The allegation that Boris Johnson is a bombastic blowhard and careerist who is out of his depth in a real crisis has been confirmed all too frequently by events
• Huck: The Labour left and ‘the long march through the institutions’

  Since the British left was defeated at the ballot box in December – and subsequently in the Labour Party – Labour members have wrestled with the pros and cons of remaining in the party
• Collective 20: What Would the NHS Look Like if it Took Health Promotion Seriously?

  Authoritarian decision-making is another way in which social inequalities are maintained within the NHS
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  Cockburn: The UK and US are Starting a New Cold War with Russia and China

  What are These Governments Trying to Hide?
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  Monbiot: Contract Killers

  Coronavirus deals worth billions of bounds have been awarded by the government to “unusual” companies, without advertising or competition
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  Prashad: Each Heartbeat Must Be Our Song; the Redness of Blood, Our Banner

  This level of public action is simply not available in the advanced capitalist countries, where mass organisations have been tethered and voluntary action has become professionalised in non-profit organisations
• Jasiewicz: Reversing the flow

  To undo prison culture, we need to reverse exclusionary, utilitarian, capitalist culture. This includes dismantling the school to prison pipeline
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  Prashad: The U.S. and UK Are a Wrecking Ball Crew Against the Pillars of Internationalism

  In both the case of the sanctions against the ICC and the theft of Venezuela’s gold, the United States and the UK demonstrate their disregard for international institutions and for international law
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  Monbiot: Something Wicked This Way Comes

  Are Trump and Johnson paving the way for fascism, or for something different, but just as bad?
• Driver: The Incredible Stitch-up of Julian Assange

  What the US and Britain are attempting is not a legal form of extradition, it is extraordinary rendition – the ILLEGAL transfer of a person from one country to another
• Surin: UK’s Labour Leader Sacks Most Left-Wing Member of His Shadow Cabinet

  At these conferences Minnesota police were instructed in the brutal techniques used by Israeli forces as they coerce and terrorize Palestinians living in the occupied territories under the pretense of security operations
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  Seymour: The nationalist unconscious

  To fully grasp the rise of the new authoritarians, we must engage with psychoanalysis as well as economics
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  Monbiot: Road to Perdition

  How did wildlife groups start collaborating in the destruction of nature?
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  Monbiot: Lying In State

  History, as the government tells it, is one long lie, airbrushing a host of atrocities
• Livingstone: The UK is trying to meddle in Latin America once more

  A look at British complicity in Trump’s regime change agenda
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  Monbiot: Sold Out

  The government intends to use a US trade deal to bypass democracy, override Parliament and rip down our public protections
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  Cockburn: British Leaders Have No Idea How Bad Slavery Was

  It is the tendency of fervent Brexiteers like Rees-Mogg and Swayne to be ignorant not only of the history of other countries, but of the real history of their own
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  Cook: Symbols are invested with power

  Don’t dismiss the importance of toppling a statue
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  Younge: What Black America Means to Europe

  Many have attempted to claim that `things are better here' for black people than in the US. This ignores both Europe's colonial past and its own racist present