Alvaro Uribe is found guilty of witness tampering and procedural fraud, reports NICK MACWILLIAM
A proper lockdown requires full financial support for workers
The government needs to ensure workers can afford to stay at home, argues RICHARD BURGON MP
Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak
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
THE government’s complete failure to get the virus under control means we’re back in a lockdown.
This is clearly a necessary public-health measure given tens of thousands more unnecessary deaths would have happened if the virus had run even further out of control.
The lockdown must be done properly if it’s to succeed. But it's clear already that this lockdown is inadequate for driving the new strain of the virus right down to safe levels.
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