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
Angela Davis and the women’s movement of Northern Ireland
LYNDA WALKER remembers the legendary US civil rights activist’s two visits to Belfast, in 1994 and 2017
Angela Davis (right) and Lynda Walker of the Communist Party of Ireland, pictured in 2017
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
WHEN Angela Davis addressed a group of over 700 people in the Whitla Hall at Belfast Queen’s University in 2017, I was immensely proud. This was her second visit to Belfast, her first being in 1994.
She told the audience how she received that invitation when she met women from Ireland in Moscow at the World Congress of Women.
In 1987 a delegation of 42 women from the length and breadth of Ireland went to Moscow — trade unionists, community activists, communists, all were thrilled to meet Angela.
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