A new generation of right-wing politicians have shifted from promoting deregulation to championing anti-migrant politics warns SOLOMON HUGHES
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American horror story of the 21st century: US immigration detention centres
The inhumane treatment at migrant camps is systemic and has been decades in the making. But behind the human misery lies the drive for profit, writes CHAUNCEY K ROBINSON
Dawn Wooten (left) a nurse at Irwin County Detention Centre in Ocilla, Georgia, speaks at a news conference in Atlanta protesting conditions at the immigration jail
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The US relationship with Israel has evolved into a strategic liability, argues RAMZY BAROUD
A champion motorcyclist, trade union organiser and communist, Clem Beckett went from Britain’s speedway tracks to the battlefields of Spain, where he gave his life resisting Franco’s forces at Jarama. GEOFF BOTTOMS pays tribute to this remarkable anti-fascist
The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
Claiming to ease a fertiliser shortage, the Trump administration has suspended tariffs on Moroccan phosphate imports – deepening US support for the Morocco’s control over Sahrawi territory, writes LUKE ROTELLO
HALLOWEEN may be fast approaching, but you don’t have to wait until October 31 for a truly scary tale.
Damning reports and allegations have come out detailing the nightmarish conditions at immigration detention camps in the United States.
Things were already bad inside the centres, but the situation is now exacerbated by a deadly global pandemic.
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Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER