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Promoting democracy? The reality of British foreign policy in Kuwait and the Gulf
Why has our government been silent on the months-long shutdown of Kuwait’s parliament – and why do academics so often refrain from criticising countries in the region, asks IAN SINCLAIR
AUTHORITARIAN: Crown Prince of Kuwait, Sheikh Mishal al-Ahmad al-Sabah, outside 10 Downing Street, London, ahead of a meeting during a visit to Britain in 2023
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
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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
ON MAY 10 2024 the hereditary head of state of Kuwait, a close ally of Britain and the US, suspended the nation’s parliament.
Announcing the closure could last up to four years, in a televised address Emir Mishal al-Ahmad al-Sabah, who will rule by decree during this period, said he would not allow democracy to be “exploited to destroy the state.” The political system would be studied and revisions proposed, he said, followed by “whatever decisions we might deem appropriate.”
As the Washington Post noted in a June editorial: “Such remarks sound worryingly similar to what any number of would-be autocrats have said when annulling election outcomes.”
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