In the wake of his recent humanitarian visit to Cuba, RICHARD BURGON points to the now urgent need to defend the island’s political sovereignty and its right to self-determination
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Leave the scallops at the bottom of the deep blue sea
PETER FROST is throwing stones – and big ones at that – onto the Dogger Bank to stop the ecocidal trawlers
Thousands of jobs are at risk across higher education, yet government funding appears only when universities can be linked to military objectives, says JO GRADY, in the run-up to the Stop the War International Conference this Saturday
The Wye, Usk, Arrow and Lugg were once treasured for their clean waters – today, pollution and corporate excess are fuelling demands for a return to public ownership, says MARK SEDDON
The new Employment Rights Act is a step forward, but restoring collective bargaining and union power remains essential to tackling insecurity, outsourcing and low pay, says PAUL WHITEHOUSE
Rising support for Farage’s party reflects Labour’s failure to defend working-class living standards or offer a credible alternative to neoliberal decline, says JOSEPH MILLS
Trade unionists are mobilising to support Cuban workers and public services, amid escalating US pressure on the socialist island. RONAN OGILVY explains
THE shallow seas around our coasts have a rich variety of wildlife, some of it valuable as food.
Perhaps the most valuable single catch is scallops. Unsurprisingly then, it is scallop-dredging that is thought to have the most severe ecological effect of all British marine fisheries because the damage and mortality it causes the seabed and species that live there.
Greenpeace’s ship the Esperanza is dumping huge granite boulders to build an underwater barrier to protect almost 50 square miles of the Dogger Bank Special Area of Conservation from seabed trawling after the government failed to commit to properly protect the area.
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