The PM says Mandelson 'betrayed our values' – but ministers and advisers flock to line their pockets with corporate cash, says SOLOMON HUGHES
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Say an emphatic No to racism!
From the odious treatment of refugees to police strip-searching of a 15-year-old-child, institutionalised racism is ever-present and needs to be confronted and defeated, writes SABBY DHALU on UN Anti-Racism Day
DR GLYN ROBBINS ties fights at universities and sixth-form colleges to the consequences of the market system that began a generation ago with tuition fees
In the first of a series of articles, Storming the Heavens author JENNY CLEGG introduces the key themes of her book on the Chinese revolution
The far right thrives on division, but denying racism within the left only strengthens it. As we mobilise for the All Together March, real solidarity demands honesty about our own failures, argues ROGER McKENZIE
TOM GALLAHUE argues that asking what role Irish diaspora educators can play in shaping Irish unity is to ask a deeper question about democracy itself
Hundreds in Berlin gathered on January 15 to honour the US-born socialist who made East Germany his home. Florentine Morales Sandoval reports
TODAY’S “March Against Racism” marking UN Anti-Racism Day organised by Stand up to Racism, supported by the TUC and affiliated unions, could not be more timely. The last few days have exposed the distressing racist sexual abuse, degradation and humiliation that a black girl known as “Child Q” was forced to endure by police officers.
The government also recently published its Inclusive Britain report which failed to reject the discredited Commission for Race and Ethnic Disparities (CRED) “Sewell” report or address institutional racism and problems in policing highlighted by the Child Q case.
A few days ago another boat capsized near the coast of Libya in the Mediterranean Sea, leaving 19 African and Middle Eastern refugees dead and only four survivors, but was met with very little media coverage let alone outrage and compassion.
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