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
This government is for turning
To prevent renewed carnage, Johnson’s regime must be forced to adopt a 'zero Covid-19' strategy, argues DIANE ABBOTT
Students marching on Education Secretary Gavin Williamson's constituency office ahead of one of this week's humiliating U-turns
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
THE latest government U-turn on exam results shows that they can be made to change course. Of course, they cannot even perform that without leaving chaos and huge disruption in people’s lives, in this case young people either going on to further studies or about to enter the workforce. This simply confirms their bias in favour of the rich and very highly paid and their disregard for ordinary people.
Even so, there is now a string of these U-turns and we must draw the most important conclusions from them — that if we oppose this government effectively, if we put forward policies to benefit ordinary people and if we mobilise a movement around them, we can win. The stakes are very high, as both lives and livelihoods are at risk.
The current political situation is we have a government elected with a huge majority with one aim, “to get Brexit done.” That was always going to be a difficult project, as the latest set of British negotiators are now finding out for themselves.
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