The British outsourcing giant quietly deleted mention of training US immigration agents after killings in Minneapolis intensified scrutiny of its controversial contracts. SOLOMON HUGHES reports
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Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
By Henry Fowler, co-founder of Strike Map
By signing strategic defence agreements with Ukraine, the German government has reached a new dimension of war involvement, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
Born from exclusion and resistance, black British art has carved out creative space to tell untold stories and challenge racism, says ROGER McKENZIE
Your Party’s new membership rules pose a deeper question about socialist organisation: should a party lead the working class, or be led by it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
AS JOHN SWINNEY addressed the annual congress of the Scottish Secondary Teachers’ Association on Thursday, he was no doubt relieved that a bitter pay dispute between ministers and the teaching profession was over.
True, the SSTA had accepted an earlier pay offer than the significant settlement the Education Institute of Scotland fought on for — but the initial unity of the teaching unions made for key leverage in the fight.
Swinney, who holds the education brief as well as being deputy first minister, reportedly spoke of the government working in a spirit of “collaboration and empowerment.”
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