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Midnight Notes on capital punishment and its liberal supporters.

‘Out of control’ Home Office should have been in the dock, not us: Stansted 15 respond to guilty verdict

Submitted by R Totale on Dec 10 2018 18:05

The Stansted 15 protesters, who stopped a government deportation flight from taking off in March last year, have today been found guilty of breaching terror laws.

Not Guilty! Nine amazing legal defences and unlikely verdicts from history

Submitted by R Totale on Apr 8 2018 15:11

A review of nine amazing legal defences and unlikely acquittals from history:

New Labour Bills in South Africa attack worker rights and democracy

Submitted by Malatesta Black on Mar 28 2018 10:28

In South Africa the Minister of Labour announced the state intends to carry out a new round of attacks on workers and their rights. The attacks come in the form of three Labour Bills currently being considered by parliament: the Basic Conditions of Employment Bill, the National Minimum Wage Bill and the Labour Relations Amendment Bill. If passed, the changes to the labour laws these bills propose will be a major attack on workers’ rights, won through decades of struggle, and will further deepen and entrench inequality and roll back important democratic gains.

Bloody legislation against the expropriated

Submitted by Steven. on Jul 22 2017 22:37

Karl Marx's short history of the violent legislation introduced by governments in Europe to force peasants removed from their land into wage labour from the 16th century.

Little girls

Submitted by Steven. on May 14 2017 18:50

An account written in 1895 by Zo d'Axa of the 1891 trial of two teenage anarchist girls, Maria Roda, 15, and Ernesta Quartirola, accused of encouraging attacks on the police during an anarchist demonstration.