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
Tony Benn's ideas have remained as pertinent as ever
Our commitment to ongoing struggles IS the best way to remember Tony Benn, writes RICHARD BURGON
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
It was four years ago this week that Tony Benn died. He was one of Labour’s greatest ever MPs, socialist thinkers and socialist activists.
That’s why he was demonised in the right-wing press and why The Sun referred to him as “the most dangerous man in Britain.”
Benn encouraged me and countless others. I will never forget when, as a young Labour activist, I received a Christmas card from him, which simply said “Keep on Going!” I and many thousands more did just that.
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