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
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Time for unions to up their game
Plummeting membership and declining activism are largely self-inflicted for Britain’s lethargic trade unions, writes ROGER McKENZIE, arguing for a drastic change of tack
Thousands march to Trafalgar Square in central London, to celebrate workers' achievements at a May Day rally in May 2016
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
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
ALBERT EINSTEIN is credited with saying that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
This seems an eminently sensible point of view to me. You have to wonder why then if someone widely regarded as one of the foremost minds of any generation says such a thing that the trade union movement and the left — if indeed those things are the same — just bundles along doing the same old thing, expecting different results from the ones we keep getting.
I have been around the trade union and labour movement a while now.
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