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
Black Lives Matter: TUC Black Workers Conference goes virtual and global
Activist and artist ZITA HOLBOURNE introduces a packed calendar of events that show black people are fighting back on all fronts
Black people are also losing their jobs at a higher rate and are more at risk of Covid-19 than others, due to precarious work and inadequate support from employers
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
THIS year the TUC Black Workers Conference will be a virtual affair with a range of online workshops, panel debates and meetings, including a virtual art exhibition.
Over the past year black workers and their communities have faced a tremendous battle against a tidal wave of racism — inluding the murder of George Floyd and a number of other black people at the hands of the state in the US and in Wales at the start of this year with the death of Mohamud Hassan.
Black people here in Britain and globally have protested against the impacts of systemic and institutional racism and the TUC has established its Anti-Racism Taskforce.
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Artists are frequently first in line when it comes to cuts, but society as a whole is left all the poorer – it’s time they were properly valued, says ZITA HOLBOURNE of Artists Union England
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As well as paying tribute to those who arrived in Britain from the Caribbean, African and Asian regions to work and to build a better future for themselves, we must recall the ongoing injustices they and their families still face, says ZITA HOLBOURNE
ZITA HOLBOURNE introduces some of the practical, political and legal challenges to racism that black and brown-led movements are making in Britain and globally
