SOLOMON HUGHES says even electoral defeat isn’t a deterrent to right-wing MPs: pro-corporate policies might lose elections but they can be lucrative nonetheless
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Sorry is not enough: it is time for reparations
When millions of black people across the world can trace their journeys from Africa back to slavery, this is not ancient history but a crime that lives with us every day. The call for material compensation must be heard, writes ROGER McKENZIE
IMPERIAL REMNANT: Prince William arrives in Jamaica, March 2022
Schools are at breaking point, argues NASUWT general secretary MATT WRACK — we urgently need investment in our kids’ futures
MIKE SCOTT assesses the AI threat to jobs in the first of a pair of articles on the problems it poses
Without energy and without a strategic partner, Cuba is currently fighting for its survival. While the population is literally sitting in the dark, the Trump administration is trying to definitively break the socialist project through economic blackmail. What lies ahead for the island, asks MARC VANDEPITTE
A setback for IG Metall at Tesla’s Berlin plant has ignited claims of intimidation and raised fears for the future of collective bargaining and workplace democracy, says TONY BURKE
The question for the media, in the US and across the globe, says ROGER McKENZIE, is will they do their job fearlessly and call Donald Trump out?
AT THE height of the pandemic, I decided to get a DNA test to find out which African family I am from.
The results showed I am 100 per cent part of the Tikar people who live in what is now known as Cameroon in west central Africa.
I immediately felt a mixture of pride, surprise and anger.
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