By pressuring Mexico to halt oil shipments, Washington is escalating its blockade of Cuba into a direct bid for economic collapse and regime change, argues SEVIM DAGDELEN
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A new push on anti-racism in the unions: will it succeed?
The TUC Anti-Racism Taskforce promises a renewed campaign that will ‘listen to black workers’ — this is good, but many of the suggestions and proposals have been waiting to be enacted for decades, writes ROGER McKENZIE
PICKING TARGETS: The ARTF has proposed organising strategies for workplaces where black workers are more likely to be employed
As the government quietly upgrades the role of Britain’s special forces, their growing global footprint and near-total exemption from democratic oversight should alarm us all, says ROGER McKENZIE
A society that grows accustomed to ‘undesirable’ people also grows accustomed to undesirable deaths. Minneapolis serves as a wake-up call, including for our own refugee policies, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
Recent research pushes back the date of the earliest cave art by several thousand years. ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT look into the science applied
As Labour plans a centralised National Police Service, the resignation of a chief constable over the Maccabi football ban reveals how policing, technology and narrative management converge when public order and class power are at stake, says NICK WRIGHT
Sudan’s paramilitary attacked a Chadian military garrison, killing seven soldiers and prompting the government to issue a “final warning. PAVAN KULKARNI reports
DO black workers want special treatment? It is a question guaranteed to make me bristle.
It is a lot like the “where are you really from” question of recent infamy which, sadly, is nothing new to many black people.
The question of special treatment often raises its ugly head as a reaction to whatever the latest report is on the conditions facing black workers and the newly found intention to do something about the racism we face.
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