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
Falmouth locals up in arms over migrant ‘prison barge’
Local activist DAWN EVANS is back in the thick of it as Cornwall is in the news once more for all the wrong reasons, in light of the Tories’ planned floating prison for immigrants
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?
A recent Financial Times column on the Iran war exemplifies how the Western elite worldview is more concerned with strategy and power than legality or human life, writes ANDREW MURRAY
STEVE BISHOP considers the prospects for a settlement of the conflict and how the demands of both sides are being viewed
The PM is drawing cautious distance from Donald Trump over Iran – but history suggests Britain’s support may run deeper than it appears, just as it did during the Vietnam war, says KEITH FLETT
THE rusting hulk of the Bibby Stockholm is an ageing engineless barge which during its 47-year existence has been used both as secure accommodation for asylum-seekers in the Netherlands, and more recently to provide accommodation for construction workers at the Shetland Gas Plant in Scotland.
On Tuesday May 9 it was hauled into Falmouth docks in Cornwall to undergo a refit in preparation for its next incarnation as an accommodation/detention centre for refugees and asylum-seekers whom the Home Office deemed to be “illegal.”
The current accommodation capacity of the barge is just over 200. The refit commissioned by the government will see that capacity more than doubled to 500.
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