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
A bold stance is needed to counter the far right
TONY CONWAY argues that fighting fascistic developments sparked off by the controversy over immigration can only be done when supported by a clear set of progressive political demands put forward by the labour movement
Anti-fascists from Cornwall Resists, stand outside the Beresford Hotel in Newquay, Cornwall, which houses refugees, as protesters from the far-right group Patriotic Alternative mount their own protest opposite
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
GIVEN the recent developments both in Parliament and on the streets, we should recall what Georgi Dimitrov said1935.
Fascism was not something “over and above” capitalism — even though that was its claim. Nor was it primarily an expression of the despair of the lower middle class — even though this composed part of its base.
It was: “The open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital.”
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