The UK Prime Minister may have the regal touch in northern England, but he’s been wrong-footed on the constitutional challenges posed by the Celtic Alliance of first ministers from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, argues KENNY MacASKILL
Class war is being pursued in response to the coronavirus crisis…
…and the key class warriors in this country and elsewhere are big business, their political representatives and their media supporters, writes DIANE ABBOTT
NEIRLAY ANDRADE, a member of the Communist Party of Venezuela’s political committee, outlines her party’s position on the crisis facing the country
A look at Taylor Wimpey’s accounts shows why Labour’s market-led housing strategy won’t deliver more, cheaper homes, as promised, says SOLOMON HUGHES
DAVID HORSLEY remembers the remarkable life and death of US black revolutionary George Jackson, whose politically passionate prison letters were published as Soledad Brother
Cuban trade union federation CTC leader OSNAY MIGUEL COLINA speaks to Ben Chacko about life and work under a crippling US siege
A part of the British empire’s network of slavery, today the Caribbean island of Nevis faces a new form of exploitation in the form of crypto-colonialism, CLAUDIA WEBBE writes
Challenges from the unscrupulous misuse of AI to steal actors’ voice and physical likenesses is being met with a firm union response, writes LYNDA ROOKE
BERNIE SANDERS recently highlighted the fact that Amazon owner Jeff Bezos, who already has one of the largest fortunes the world has ever seen, is calling for an end to the hazard pay rises that Amazon warehouse workers have received, despite hundreds of them being infected with the virus.
Bezos is so wealthy, and his firm has flourished so much in the shutdown, that his wealth has increased by $30 billion during the pandemic.
He could easily afford to make these payments out of his own bank balance and would barely notice it.
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