Could Britain ever promote democracy in the Gulf? Only if it turns its own foreign policy away from neoliberalism and militarism, David Wearing argues in a new book.
Rather than engaging with the prejudices and misplaced fears of one section of the working class, the Labour party has given validation to forms of bigotry that have deep roots right across society.
How do we challenge the frames which perpetuate the politics of hate?
Sarah Ditum misrepresents the left and the case against the Iraq war.
Gordon Brown should think carefully about his own relationship with violent extremists before he talks about Corbyn.
The left and right of Labour have almost nothing in common. Why continue the pretence?
The ‘Royal United Services Institute’ has close links with the British state and its military establishment. The BBC should not present its analysis as apolitical ‘fact’.
For political reasons, support for British militarism has been seen by successive Labour leaderships as a key test of seriousness and virility.
Last week’s deaths in the Mediterranean were directly linked to xenophobic politics in Britain.
Westminster's pro-nuclear consensus is held together by irrational speculation about future threats. Trident must be decommissioned for the sake of life on our planet.
Maryam Alkhawaja, who was recently interviewed here at openDemocracy by David Wearing, has now been arrested in Bahrain after arriving to visit her father, a prisoner of conscience on hunger strike. All the while the UK maintains the fiction of Bahraini "reform".
Britain continues to sell arms to a state that shows continual and flagrant disregard for international law.
