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
Farewell to a generation of Caribbean pioneers
As the last of his family’s Windrush elders pass away, ROGER McKENZIE reflects on migration, courage and the ongoing struggle against racism in Britain, from the Rwanda plan to ‘stop the boats’
Jamaicans aboard the liner Auriga, Plymouth, August 1955
Schools are at breaking point, argues NASUWT general secretary MATT WRACK — we urgently need investment in our kids’ futures
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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?
IT’S been a difficult few weeks. Firstly my lovely mother-in-law passed away followed just a few days later by my mother-in-law’s sister.
While I was out of the country recently I received word that my aunt — my dad’s sister — had taken the journey to join the ancestors.
My Aunt Daphne was, as far as I am aware, the last survivor of that generation who made the trip from Jamaica to England in search of a better life for themselves and, hopefully, for their children and subsequent descendants.
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