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
Healthcare workers must oppose ‘divide and rule’ with other unions
It boggles the mind that those Tories responsible for our low pay would try and use it as a stick with which to beat the RMT and its demand for better wages — NHS staff must stand in solidarity with all striking workers, writes IAIN MOONEY
NHS staff and supporters take part in a protest march in central London in September 2020
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
IT IS possibly one of the oldest tactics in the book — and yet again we see it being unleashed to divide public service workers and the public during the current fightback against the cost-of-living crisis.
I have been a front-line NHS nurse for 10 years, and during this time I have seen the government and those running organisations within our NHS successfully divide workers and stifle trade union organisation.
We’ve seen top Tories paraded before TV cameras during the latest wave of strike action by the RMT using examples of nurses and other public-sector workers to try and paint a narrative that rail workers are causing detriment to other front-line services.
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Labour promised change but delivers the same tired formula while private firms pocket millions and staff exodus continues — now workers must lead the fightback through their unions, writes IAIN MOONEY
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Health workers are becoming unwell, being refused testing and are dying due to deliberate decisions by our government. We must never forget this, says nurse and Labour councillor IAIN MOONEY
