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
A united front against Tory austerity and authoritarianism
Linking up existing strike actions with demands for housing, fuel, food and decent work holds the key to rebuilding class consciousness today, argues RMT national president ALEX GORDON
BRAVING THE ELEMENTS: Nurses are among those who have been out on the picket lines in recent days
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
IN THE last weeks of December 2022, Britain saw strike action by over a million workers.
Trade unions representing posties, university lecturers, rail workers, nurses, ambulance drivers, driving examiners, bus drivers, staff in the UK Border Force and at the Highways and Environment Agencies have all taken industrial action in concert with each other.
The defiant mood of striking workers standing on picket lines in sub-zero temperatures has been reinforced by a sense that they are part of a swelling movement across Britain. The organised working class is leading a national debate over what kind of a society we want to live in.
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