The Mandelson scandal reveals a political settlement in which democratic choice is curtailed and the power of markets eclipses the will of voters – only the left can challenge this, writes JON TRICKETT MP
The US corporation locking up British youth
SOLOMON HUGHES introduces the scandal-hit MTC group who have come from across the Atlantic to coin it running our privatised prisons
Corbyn’s intervention exposes a corrupted system, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
Paul Holden’s book, The Fraud, exposes a hidden war inside Labour, where claims of anti-semitism, amplified by media power and factional networks, were used to break Corbynism and recast the party. JOHN ELLISON revisits the scandals, investigations and suppressed evidence from that era
In the second of a series of articles, Storming the Heavens author JENNY CLEGG introduces the key themes of her book on the Chinese revolution
The growth of Cuba’s biotechnology sector is an example of how socialism can prioritise scientific innovation, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
Paul Holden’s The Fraud reveals how a network of donors, MPs and opaque organisations quietly organised to destroy Corbyn’s leadership and manufacture a new centre of power inside Labour, writes JOHN ELLISON
Systems of power enable, excuse and normalise abuse, while survivors are ignored and women’s exploitation is repackaged as commerce and choice, warns CHARLIE WEINBERG
THANKS to British governments copying the ugly US-plan of jail privatisation, a multinational corporation can make money out of miserable conditions on two continents.
Just before Christmas three regulators demanded “urgent action” to improve grim conditions at the privately run Rainsbrook youth jail in Warwickshire. The poor treatment of the locked-up youngsters is not surprising, given the firm running the jail: the Management and Training Corporation (MTC) are also known for some shocking conditions in private jails in their native US.
On December 18, Ofsted, HM Inspectorate of Prisons and the Care Quality Commission jointly issued what they called a “rare urgent notification” obliging Tory Justice Secretary Robert Buckland to make improvements at Rainsbrook in 28 days. The three regulators said that Rainsbrook, a “secure training centre” for young offenders in Warwickshire, was a “spartan regime where children were given little encouragement to get up in the mornings or have any meaningful engagement with staff.”
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