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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The police will need more than a new Bill to hold us back
DAN GLAZEBROOK meets young people in Oxford standing up to police harassment and intimidation
A woman is arrested during a Kill the Bill protest, London April 2021
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?
THE Policing Bill now being sent back to Lords and on its way to becoming law, will ramp up police powers to unprecedented levels.
Firstly, it will give the police virtually limitless powers to declare demonstrations illegal and arrest all those in attendance, on the flimsiest of pretexts. Up until now, police could only ban demonstrations if there was a serious threat of public disorder or criminal damage.
This new Bill will allow them to do so on the grounds of such vague criteria as “serious inconvenience” or even “serious annoyance.”
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