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
Only class solidarity will defeat racism
ROGER McKENZIE warns against accepting the lip service offered by politicians to the struggle against racism
LOUD AND CLEAR: Anti-racism march in central London orgainised by Stand Up To Racism and trade unions on March 16 2024
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
WITH organised lying and hypocrisy existing on an industrial scale in politics how can the black community, or anyone else, trust politicians to tackle the current surge of racism?
The simple answer is that we can’t. The solution is in our own hands.
Too many politicians feel the urge to drape themselves in a flag of phoney patriotism. They portray this as a sign that they can be trusted and believed even when the evidence is crystal clear that they are lying through their teeth.
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