Newly revealed documents reveal that MI5 taught Brazilian secret police the techniques deployed by the 1964-85 military dictatorship in horrific prisons like Rio de Janeiro’s House of Death. SARA VIVACQUA reports
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Bert vs the dismantled state
The draconian extension of police powers is disaster capitalism creating a new control framework for the corporate feudalism that will follow Covid-19 — and let them rule over the ruins of a climate-changed world. It's time to hit the streets, writes ALAN SIMPSON
CHRISTOPHE DOMEC speaks to the France Insoumise politician facing constant persecution from French authorities
It can be hard to discern conspiracy theory from reality and under the Trump regime the two might just be the same thing, writes Linda Pentz Gunter
ALAN SIMPSON says responses to the Golders Green attacks risk deepening divides across our country
Capturing the general strikes history is a vital part of our struggles today, posits HENRY FOWLER
On a tumultuous day in Welsh politics DAVID NICHOLSON looks at the key issues for progressives in Wales to grapple with the rise of the far right
WE do ourselves no favours by treating the current Policing Bill just as an outrageous assault on a public right to protest. Of course it is — but the violence targeted towards the police in Bristol (and the preceding violence by police themselves towards peaceful protesters) masks the scale of the assault on civil liberties currently underway. It is this bigger picture that should worry us most.
Disaster capitalism is racing into “surveillance and control” politics. This provides the government with cover for its continuing addiction to all the problems that created the current crisis. If the government plan succeeds, life will become immeasurably harder — for all of us.
The whole of Britain longs for coronavirus constraints to come to an end. Spring is coming. We want to say hello to each other in public again, to socialise in ways we used to regard as normal.
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