The UK Prime Minister may have the regal touch in northern England, but he’s been wrong-footed on the constitutional challenges posed by the Celtic Alliance of first ministers from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, argues KENNY MacASKILL
Government policy is driving the Covid crisis
The Tories are using the pandemic as cover to push though their austerity agenda, which falls hardest on workers, the poor and the oppressed, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
NEIRLAY ANDRADE, a member of the Communist Party of Venezuela’s political committee, outlines her party’s position on the crisis facing the country
A look at Taylor Wimpey’s accounts shows why Labour’s market-led housing strategy won’t deliver more, cheaper homes, as promised, says SOLOMON HUGHES
DAVID HORSLEY remembers the remarkable life and death of US black revolutionary George Jackson, whose politically passionate prison letters were published as Soledad Brother
Cuban trade union federation CTC leader OSNAY MIGUEL COLINA speaks to Ben Chacko about life and work under a crippling US siege
A part of the British empire’s network of slavery, today the Caribbean island of Nevis faces a new form of exploitation in the form of crypto-colonialism, CLAUDIA WEBBE writes
Challenges from the unscrupulous misuse of AI to steal actors’ voice and physical likenesses is being met with a firm union response, writes LYNDA ROOKE
IT IS A strange fact that the some of the richest countries in the world have some of the worst outcomes in the pandemic, along with other countries like Brazil.
Given that social conditions, housing and, above all, health services are far better resourced in the richest countries, this can only mean one thing. It is government policy that it is driving the crisis.
Frequently, government claims on the pandemic lapse into unverifiable or even demonstrably untrue assertions.
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