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
Black communists, immigration, reparations and anti-racism
The proud history of black and white unity in the Communist Party over the last century has laid the ground to develop the progressive policies we need today, writes ROGER MCKENZIE
ONE VOICE: Stand Up To Racism demo in Glasgow March 2023
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
COMMUNISM in Britain has had many key black activists since the founding of the party in 1920.
Much of this black communist tradition in the party has gone uncelebrated and is only now being rediscovered and revived.
This isn’t just because of a desire to demonstrate some kind of “right on” stance by the party. There is simply no need to do that.
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