The British outsourcing giant quietly deleted mention of training US immigration agents after killings in Minneapolis intensified scrutiny of its controversial contracts. SOLOMON HUGHES reports
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Insult added to injury
Glasgow School of Art after the fire in June
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
By Henry Fowler, co-founder of Strike Map
By signing strategic defence agreements with Ukraine, the German government has reached a new dimension of war involvement, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
Born from exclusion and resistance, black British art has carved out creative space to tell untold stories and challenge racism, says ROGER McKENZIE
Your Party’s new membership rules pose a deeper question about socialist organisation: should a party lead the working class, or be led by it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
AS Glasgow School of Art students put their days of tent learning behind them, the search for answers over the fire in June rumbles slowly on.
This week it emerged that building giant Kier, which was contracted to rebuild the GSA after the 2014 blaze, had located its site office inside the building despite it being unsafe.
Perhaps this should come as no surprise. Kier was one of the major builders caught up in the blacklisting scandal — where tradesmen were systematically denied work because of union activity and raising safety concerns on site.
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