Alvaro Uribe is found guilty of witness tampering and procedural fraud, reports NICK MACWILLIAM
Put people before profit — end lockdown only when safe
RICHARD BURGON MP argues that the government must only reopen schools and wider workplaces once it’s safe to do so
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 scandal around the Prime Minister’s chief adviser Dominic Cummings will have left the public rightly believing that there’s one rule for the rich and powerful and another for everybody else.
Clearly, the government has treated people as mugs. As a result of this rank hypocrisy over these events, there is now a real danger that the government’s conduct will undermine confidence in the public-health message at a critical time.
Government failures have already resulted in British citizens paying with one of the world’s highest death counts. More lives could be lost by a government-created breakdown in trust in its lockdown rules.
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