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
Time for Labour to commit to progressive internationalism
The fight against the Covid pandemic will only succeed if it's driven by global internationalist solidarity, writes DIANE ABBOTT
DESPERATE TIMES: A note on a wall of a vaccination centre in Mumbai, India, last week
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
TWO very important developments in the struggle against the pandemic took place this week. They illustrate the seriousness of the spread of the virus on a global scale, which unfortunately often gets rather overlooked in this country. But they also indicate something about the Labour Party’s approach to international affairs, and what the adoption of a progressive internationalist outlook could mean in practice.
The two key developments themselves are first the approach of another high point for recorded new cases of the coronavirus, which is extremely worrying.
The second is the call of former leading politicians for the suspension of Covid-19 vaccine patents.
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