Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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Assange and Trump: the rule of law and beyond
Who gets locked up or set free and what the rich man’s courts can do for the working class are tricky topics for socialists living under capitalism: KEITH FLETT looks at our relationship to the rule of law
Washington’s lawless behaviour towards countries in the region it considers its ‘back yard’ should be condemned by all law-abiding people, says LUKE DANIELS
In part I of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY takes a look at the early days of organising government workers
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
The shadow lord chancellor has recently made a name for himself as an rabid hater of immigration – but there are exceptions to every rule, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Plaid Cymru’s front-bench spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in a two-part series, analyses the Caerphilly by-election and the wider political scene in Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd election
THE opening moments of 2021 have seen a good deal of attention focused on the law.
A request by the US to extradite Julian Assange, essentially for exposing its role in the Iraq war, was turned down by a judge.
Not because it would be a fundamental attack on journalistic freedom but because incarceration in a US prison might further worsen Assange’s health, which has already been damaged by the British state keeping him locked up in Belmarsh.
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