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English Defence League stunts and the real lessons of the 1930s

Calls for state, local government and BBC censorship and bans will inevitably backfire against the workers’ movement, argues Ben Lewis Doubtless bolstered by the British National Party’s recent electoral success, there has been a rise in far-right street mobilisations, leading to tussles with the police, Muslim youth and left activists, including those from Unite Against Fascism. ...

Liberal interventionism after the Burmese cyclone would spell another disaster

by James Turley of Communist Students Crocodile tears and democracy Nature has been cruel to south-east Asia recently. The Union of Myanmar (formerly, and still popularly known as Burma) has been rocked by a devastating cyclone, the eighth most severe in recorded history; and Szechuan province in China, saw a powerful earthquake kill upwards of 12,000 people. While ...