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
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Taking on the garment industry
We have to face down the government’s bonfire of regulations, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE MP — businesses, retailers and brands who profit from the exploitation of Leicester’s garment workers need more scrutiny and supervision, not less
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
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
THE government’s plan to remove small and medium businesses from regulation is typical of a madcap government that loves announcements but ignores reality as we have already seen in Kwasi Kwarteng’s U-turn on tax cuts. We need clarity urgently and in reality, we need more regulation and enforcement, not less.
Since being elected to represent my home city, I have been campaigning to end the scourge of exploitation that has plagued sections of Leicester’s garment industry for decades. Leicester is a tragic example of how the fast-fashion industry creates exploitation across the world.
The scandalous mistreatment of workers in my community is best understood as an extreme microcosm of the national and global decay of workers’ rights during the failed neoliberal project of the last 40 years.
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