Alvaro Uribe is found guilty of witness tampering and procedural fraud, reports NICK MACWILLIAM
P&O scandal is a result of the weakness of British labour law
Professor KEITH EWING asks what is to be done over the appalling ease with which workers can be ‘fired and replaced’
On the anniversary of the implementation of the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, ROGER McKENZIE warns that the legacy of black enslavement still looms in the Caribbean and beyond
Starmer’s decision to recognise Palestine only as long as Israel continues to massacre its inhabitants has been met with outrage, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The creative imagination is a weapon against barbarism, writes KENNY COYLE, who is a keynote speaker at the Manifesto Press conference, Art in the Age of Degenerative Capitalism, tomorrow at the Marx Memorial Library & Workers School in London
RAMZY BAROUD explains why the world can no longer ignore Palestine
Starmer’s decision to suspend Diane Abbott yet again demonstrates a determination to maintain and propagate a hierarchy of racism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
GRANT SHAPPS’S nine-point plan in response to the P&O affair has been widely criticised as falling well short of what is required to deal not only with the ongoing dispute, but also with its legacy to ensure that this does not happen again.
Yet despite the feigned surprise and faux outrage of the political classes, P&O is not a one-off problem, any more than were the other recent corporate scandals.
It is a consequence of the systemic weaknesses of British labour law, which need to be addressed. So what needs to be done?
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