Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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Coronavirus is highlighting extreme racial and class inequalities – let’s vow to end them
The uneven deaths reflect a global economic system which has been built upon racialised extraction and subordination, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
Washington’s lawless behaviour towards countries in the region it considers its ‘back yard’ should be condemned by all law-abiding people, says LUKE DANIELS
In part I of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY takes a look at the early days of organising government workers
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
The shadow lord chancellor has recently made a name for himself as an rabid hater of immigration – but there are exceptions to every rule, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Plaid Cymru’s front-bench spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in a two-part series, analyses the Caerphilly by-election and the wider political scene in Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd election
THE Covid-19 crisis is, of course, unprecedented. Yet it is also shining a brutal light on existing racial and class inequalities, which have deepened after half a century of brutal, unrestrained neoliberal policies.
As a black woman representing the exceptionally diverse constituency of Leicester East, it has been extremely concerning to see the disproportionate impact of the coronavirus upon African, Asian and minority ethnic communities.
Analysis from the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre found that, of over 4,000 critically ill coronavirus patients, 34 per cent were from BAME backgrounds — over double what would be expected based on population demographics.
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