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A trampling of Enlightenment values
The French Global Security Law, which makes it illegal to film police officers, is part of a rightward tilt by Macron, says DENNIS BROE
SINISTER: A protester holds a board reading: ‘Who protects us from the police state?’ during a demo against the Bill on police images, in Paris last Saturday
CHRIS HOOFE calls for support for GMB’s Potters’ Pledge campaign, aimed at making sure the historic pottery industry based in Stoke-on-Trent is supported over cheap, low-quality imports and counterfeits
Investing the £75 billion slated for defence spending on a green new deal, healthcare and education would create jobs and help communities far more than weapons spending, argues UCU general secretary JO GRADY
Speaking to the Morning Star’s Ceren Sagir, general secretary of the National Union of Journalists LAURA DAVISON outlines the threats to journalism from Palestine to Britain, and the unique challenges confronting the industry through the rise of AI
We must organise broad-based counterprotests and celebratory local community events to rebuild class consciousness and challenge the far-right’s divisive lies, writes KEVIN COURTNEY, ahead of this Saturday’s big demo in London
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE
AGAINST a backdrop of street protest — even in the midst of a Covid lockdown — and increasing police violence and repression, France passed the draconian Global Security Law this week, which could make it an offence punishable by a year in jail and a €45,000 fine to film, post and identify police officers committing violent actions.
Representatives of President Emmanuel Macron’s LREM party, whose title La Republic En Marche claims that they are concerned about rights and liberties, on Tuesday morning would have seen footage on the news of the police brutally rousting homeless people from Republique, the square commemorating these rights.
On Tuesday afternoon they voted in favour of the law, claiming that there was no contradiction between the two events.
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