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Attorney Ben Crump, speaks during a news conference at the Malcolm X and Dr Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Centre in New York, accompanied by the daughters of Malcom X, Ilyasah Shabazz (left) and Qubilah Shabbaz (second from left) and attorney Ray Hamlin (right), on Tuesday, February 21, 2023
THE family of slain black rights leader Malcolm X marked the anniversary of his 1965 assassination on Tuesday by announcing plans to sue a number of federal and local agencies.
The family accuses a number of agencies of playing a role in the death of the legendary black activist and plans to sue them for $100 million (£82.9m).
The Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the New York Police Department are among the agencies being targeted.
As the US intensifies its economic and political pressure it is now vitally important to demand the British government intervene to end US aggression, writes GEOFF BOTTOMS
RON JACOBS is enthralled by an account of the surveillance and political repression on the left in the US
From terrifying the children of immigrants to pepper-spraying frogs, the US under Trump is rapidly descending into mayhem, writes Linda Pentz Gunter