The country’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, has promised a break from the politics of the last 40 years—realizing more broadly that Labour must stand up for the 99% against big business, or the party will become irrelevant.
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Berta Cáceres, Honduran human rights and environment activist, murdered
The co-founder of the Council of Indigenous Peoples of Honduras was shot dead by gunmen who entered her home at around 1am on Thursday – barely a week after Cáceres was threatened for opposing a hydroelectric project.
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Stop Trident: Why Renewing Britain’s Nuclear Weapons Program Is Plain Mad
On Saturday, the "largest demonstration in a generation" marched in London in a bid to #StopTrident, making clear the public's widespread opposition to re-launching the U.K. nuclear program.
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Security giants earn huge windfalls from ‘surveillance-industrial complex’
In run-up to 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Panasonic and other multinational corporations find big market for security.
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Student Debt Protests Escalate After Armed Marshals Arrest Man for Old Loans
Seven U.S. marshals armed with automatic weapons turned up at Paul Aker’s home in Houston, Texas, last week to arrest him over a $1,500 student loan debt dating back to 1987.
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The NYPD Has Tracked Citizens’ Cellphones 1,000 Times Since 2008 Without Warrants
According to records obtained by New York Civil Liberties Union, the country's most powerful police force tracks cellphones using "stingrays," which have no guiding legal policy.
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UN Panel Calls On U.K. and Sweden to End Julian Assange's "Deprivation of Liberty"
The WikiLeaks founder has been arbitrarily detained by the U.K. and Sweden for more than five years and should be released immediately with compensation, according to a Geneva-based UN working group on arbitrary detention.
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Latino Lives Matter: Stop Ignoring the Police Killings of Latinos In America
Few police shootings of Latinos make national headlines – a lack of attention and outrage that stems from a poor understanding of the history of state violence against them in the U.S.
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Private Companies are Making a Killing in the Justice System
Corporations like Aramark and CCA make money at almost every step of our justice and prison systems, from processing fines to monitoring ankle bracelets and drug testing. And they make a lot of it.
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Cleveland Officer Who Fatally Shot Tamir Rice Will Not Face Criminal Charges
The white police officer who fatally shot Tamir Rice, an African American 12-year-old, will not face criminal charges, it was announced on Monday – more than a year after the shooting in Cleveland.
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More Snowdens Wanted: Germany's "Intelexit" Calls On Spooks To Give Up The Game
A German anti-surveillance collective is seeking to dispel apprehension among other spies who might be contemplating following in Snowden’s footsteps.
