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
How legitimate anger is at risk of being channelled in bizarre and dangerous directions
Growing populism is a sign that the working-class labour and progressive movement must give a clear and direct lead in terms of why we are where we are and what needs to be done, warns BILL GREENSHIELDS
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’S very easy to point the finger of ridicule at “Covid deniers,” “anti-vaxxers” and other conspiracy theorists — but in fact we need to recognise that very large numbers of people, particularly working-class people who have been worst affected by the pandemic, are becoming increasingly angry that their lives have been turned upside down, and may give such populism a hearing if our movement doesn’t give a powerful lead.
These are people who are often confined to cramped housing, their jobs destroyed or threatened, increasingly unable to make ends meet and care for their families, having to turn to foodbanks, separated even from family support, ripped off by profiteers, worried that they may be kicked out of their homes — all as a result of the government’s big business priorities.
Ministers’ handling of the virus crisis has been both callous and at the same time incompetent — so why would working-class people not want to protest and take some sort of action — perhaps any sort of action?
More from this author
It would be great to have a better option to vote for in elections, but a coalition of proven working-class organisations built from decades of real struggle offers stronger foundations than patched-together parliamentarianism, writes BILL GREENSHIELDS
BILL GREENSHIELDS invites all and sundry to this years’ Derby Silk Mill Lockout March, Rally and People’s Festival on June 7
BILL GREENSHIELDS urges an intensification of the information offensive against the impact of the spurious discourse peddled by Reform UK
BILL GREENSHIELDS reviews the president's contortions as he tries to avoid appointing a government of the election-winning New Popular Front
