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
Trade unions are at the heart of combating racism
ROGER McKENZIE welcomes the opportunity to develop the movement’s anti-racist and black-worker organising strategies
The assertion of the importance of black lives cannot just be a convenient slogan to use at the appropriate time. It is a call for real change to happen to deal with the racism that so many of us face on a daily basis; from the attacks on the street to the discrimination in the workplace; from being passed over again for promotion to missing out on yet another training opportunity.
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
THE United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is held each year on the day the police opened fired and killed 69 people and injured 180 others at a peaceful demonstration against the South African apartheid “pass laws” at the now infamous Sharpeville Massacre in 1960.
At its general assembly in 1979 the UN agreed that each member state should organise a week of activities every year, beginning on March 21, to bring focus to the fight against racism.
Twenty years ago, after the fall of apartheid, the UN held a World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, to give fresh impetus to the struggle.
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