There have been penalties for those who looked the other way when Epstein was convicted of child sex offences and decided to maintain relationships with the financier — but not for the British ambassador to Washington, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES
All workers — and only workers — are ‘essential’
We need to recalibrate our economy and our society around the real ‘wealth creators,’ writes MICK WHELAN
Labour’s new Treasury unit will ‘challenge unnecessary regulation’ by forcing nominally independent bodies like Ofwat to bend to business demands — exactly what Iain Anderson’s corporate clients wanted, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
DR DYLAN MURPHY looks at a Big Brother Watch report which exposes the government as an enabler of DWP secret spying on benefit claimants
The EU faces a critical choice: will it remain in the shadow of an increasingly unreliable US ally, or will it forge its own path in a multilateral world where co-operation with China is essential, asks MARC VANDEPITTE as leaders meet for the EU-China Summit
A lot of discussion about how the left should currently organise – including debate on whether the Green Party is a useful vehicle for advance – runs the risk of refusing to engage with or learn from the reasons the left was defeated previously, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE
I WOULD like to wish all working people and their families a very happy May Day. The day, whether we call it the workers’ day, or labour day, is when, right around the world, we show solidarity with the working men and women of every nation.
We have done this every year since the sixth international socialist congress, held in Amsterdam in 1904, called on “all social democratic parties and the trade unions of all countries” to demonstrate on May 1 for the establishment of “an eight hour day, the class demands of the proletariat and universal peace.”
It’s going to be a bit different this year. We will all miss the traditional marches under union banners in which so many of us take part up and down this country.
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