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Whatever the differences between members of political parties, and no one involved in politics will agree with the ‘they’re all the same’ dismissal so often thrown at politicians by people as a reason for not voting, we do have at least one similarity – we all want...

The Labour Campaign for International Development were delighted to be approved as an official socialist society affiliated to the Labour party by the NEC at conference last month. From creating the UK’s first Ministry of Overseas Development under Harold Wilson, to...

I detest all forms of racism, sexism and bigotry but have no desire for the state to police the opinions of racists, sexists and bigots. I hold, perhaps naively, to George Orwell’s maxim that liberty, if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they do not...

It’s all gone quiet in Turkey. Actually, it hasn’t – only in the western media. After what were largely peaceful, legitimate protests, first there was the crackdown in early June, when protesters were violently ejected from Taksim Square, which resulted in four deaths...