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
The struggles of a century – and into the future
Communist Party centenary project officer PHIL KATZ looks back at a year of achievement and the opportunity of future advance
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
AS THE centenary year of the Communist Party draws to a close, it’s possible to state with confidence that there’s more — and possibly the best — yet to come.
December 2020 will be notable for the convening of an important conference on the Future of Work and the message of a belief in the future will be reinforced, as the party gets behind the Youth Charter, recently published by the Young Communist League.
Back in June 2019, a committee was convened made of CP members and allies to discuss what kind of ideas, events, campaigns and publications would be a fitting way to celebrate 100 years of struggle for socialism.
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