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
Class struggle in Iran: nurses fight for dignity and fair salaries
Nurses in Iran are waging an admirable struggle for pay above the poverty line, job security and against compulsory overtime despite the regime trying to suppress their voices and divide them, reports JAMSHID AHMADI
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
AS WE approach the period in which the budgets are set and workers’ wages determined for the Iranian calendar year 1403 (2024-25), the situation for nurses in Iran is grim.
While the budget for the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) has increased by 43 per cent, there is apparently no budget for the payment of decent and proper nurses’ salaries.
Despite the governing regime’s opposition to increasing the national minimum wage in line with the rate of inflation on February 1 along with the labour minister’s attack on the workers’ movement and his insistence that wage levels would be set regionally — rather than a national minimum wage — on February 2, the widespread and almost daily protests of workers in Iran continue.
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As the regime in Iran continues to face international pressure to reduce its nuclear programme, workers continue to struggle for wages they can live on despite harsh repression of trade unionists, reports JAMSHID AHMADI
Activists who are carrying forward the democratic struggle of the Iranian people for peace, human rights and social progress need our urgent solidarity, says JAMSHID AHMADI
As a new president takes office amid a suspiciously low turnout, the regime’s grip on power grows ever more tenuous as the crises and rebellions become more regular, writes JAMSHID AHMADI
