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24 February 2010
ID cards - an expensive threat to civil liberties
NEW LABOUR has brought in several pieces of repressive legislation recently that attack our civil liberties but at least they've abandoned the unpopular plan for compulsory ID cards, haven't they, writes Tom Baldwin.
28 May 2008
'Counter-terrorism' legislation threatens our democratic rights
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Postal workers trampled on the anti-trade union laws |
Feature: The government's proposal to extend the period the police can hold suspects without charge to 42 days, will be presented to parliament in the next few weeks. ANNA LUCAS explains that, far from being a step in the right direction, these new laws, and other 'anti-crime' measures over recent years, amount to a major and unjustified attack on our democratic rights.
2 April 2008
ID cards: No to students being used as guinea pigs!
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith recently announced plans for ID cards to be introduced on a 'voluntary' basis for certain groups, including students, writes Steve Sweeney, Cambridge Socialist Students.
16 February 2006
ID cards: 'Creeping compulsion' and grovelling MPs
YET ANOTHER threatened 'backbench revolt' on identity (ID) cards by Labour MPs fizzled out on 13 February after some minor concessions swayed most 'rebels'...
2 June 2005
ID cards: £300 for a snooper's card!
THE GOVERNMENT'S plans for compulsory identity (ID) cards are an attack on our democratic rights...
26 May 2005
LABOUR'S REDUCED majority in their third term seems to have done nothing to curb their zeal for introducing anti-working-class, anti-democratic legislation...
4 December 2004
Blair's election strategy threatens democratic rights
NEW LABOUR'S general election strategy is now clear. They say "vote Labour" for tough measures on law and order and to fight the 'war on terror'...
27 November 2004
Queen's speech: New Labour's terror card
THE ANNUAL fancy-dress opening of Parliament, the Queen's Speech, showed that New Labour wants to divert voters' gaze away from issues such as education and the NHS...
1 May 2004
ID Cards - Working Class People Will Pay The Price
David Blunkett has declared that the population of Britain isn't 'allowed' to know how much his ID card scheme will cost, for reasons of 'commercial secrecy'! ...
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