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Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
28 March 2013
62. We dealt with the question of migration in more depth in last year's perspectives document. The census results give a picture of the changed makeup of Britain's population...
Police on student demonstration - hundreds of protesters have been injured by police violence, photo Senan
5 October 2011
What is happening to the democratic and civil liberties won over generations by working class people? In Britain, governments have used some of the repressive methods of totalitarian states
29 June 2011
Western governments more concerned about business deals than human rights in China
Ahead of premier Wen Jiabao's visit to Europe, to cement more trade deals, the Chinese authorities released from jail prominent dissidents Ai Weiwei, the artist, and Hu Jia...
24 February 2010
UP TO 30 women detainees at Yarl's Wood detention centre in Bedfordshire are continuing a hunger strike...
The state, cartoon by Alan Hardman, photo Alan Hardman
25 March 2009
Binyam Mohamed has made allegations of MI5 collusion in his torture at various detention camps, including Guantánamo Bay. A wave of repressive legislation has been introduced.
Tony Saunois looks at these and other attacks on civil liberties, and the need for all socialists and trade unionists to take up the important task of defending democratic rights.
23 November 2008
House of Lords hears case on right to demonstrate
Lois Austin -v- commissioner of police of the metropolis: An important test case concerning the limitation of the police's power to control demonstrators will be heard by the House of Lords from 24th-26th November 2008...
22 October 2008
42-day detention dropped - for now
Democratic rights: THE GOVERNMENT'S proposal to increase how long police can hold you without charge, from 28 days to 42 days, was dropped from its counter-terrorism bill last week, writes Ben Robinson.
19 January 2006
Education: SOME GOVERNMENT ministers fear that the new Education Bill to create a system of trust schools across the country could be defeated in the House of Commons...
12 March 2005
Ten police officers have been disciplined as a result of the BBC documentary The secret policeman which exposed racist views and practice by trainee police officers last year...
11 December 2004
EIGHT MEN, imprisoned on suspicion of being 'linked to' terrorism, are suffering from: "Major depressive anxiety disorder and some are experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder"...
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