Alvaro Uribe is found guilty of witness tampering and procedural fraud, reports NICK MACWILLIAM
If not now, then when?
In the run-up to Plaid Cymru conference, Senedd member RHYS AB OWEN argues that the pandemic has been a chance to radically imagine what a future society should be – but we’re already seeing backsliding from the powers that be who have no desire to reorganise society to benefit ordinary people
The Senedd building in Cardiff
On the anniversary of the implementation of the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, ROGER McKENZIE warns that the legacy of black enslavement still looms in the Caribbean and beyond
Starmer’s decision to recognise Palestine only as long as Israel continues to massacre its inhabitants has been met with outrage, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The creative imagination is a weapon against barbarism, writes KENNY COYLE, who is a keynote speaker at the Manifesto Press conference, Art in the Age of Degenerative Capitalism, tomorrow at the Marx Memorial Library & Workers School in London
RAMZY BAROUD explains why the world can no longer ignore Palestine
Starmer’s decision to suspend Diane Abbott yet again demonstrates a determination to maintain and propagate a hierarchy of racism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
TOO MANY politicians today have lost the will to be radical engines of change in society.
The history of politics has always seen reaction to crisis differ, from transformative agendas which restructure society for the better, to weak tweaks which barely touch the status quo.
The Covid-19 pandemic has been one such crisis, and now is the time to imagine the future, think of our aspirations and question if the society we inherited, really lives up to the lives we want.
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Scotland has led the way by expunging convictions related to the strike — now the whole of the UK must look into police action during this bitter dispute, and the question of reparations for the miners too, writes RHYS AB OWEN MS
I can see my father’s care home from my office in the Welsh Senedd — reminding me that it’s time for Wales to take the lead on public health reform once again, writes RHYS ab OWEN MS
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