Alvaro Uribe is found guilty of witness tampering and procedural fraud, reports NICK MACWILLIAM
Lockdown, trade unions and returning to work
The Communist Party's ANDY BAIN asks how the labour movement should approach easing the lockdown
On the anniversary of the implementation of the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, ROGER McKENZIE warns that the legacy of black enslavement still looms in the Caribbean and beyond
Starmer’s decision to recognise Palestine only as long as Israel continues to massacre its inhabitants has been met with outrage, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The creative imagination is a weapon against barbarism, writes KENNY COYLE, who is a keynote speaker at the Manifesto Press conference, Art in the Age of Degenerative Capitalism, tomorrow at the Marx Memorial Library & Workers School in London
RAMZY BAROUD explains why the world can no longer ignore Palestine
Starmer’s decision to suspend Diane Abbott yet again demonstrates a determination to maintain and propagate a hierarchy of racism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
The government is caught between a rock and a hard place and they will steer towards the rock of profits rather than the people’s health.
The deliberately confusing easing of the existing partial lockdown opens the door to employers to force workers back to unhealthy workplaces and will persuade some of those desperate, for whatever reason, to get out of the house. This could lead to the lockdown crumbling, causing confusion and stress and a high chance of a second spike in deaths.
Covid-19 has exposed the many faultlines of capitalism across the full range of human activity, the economic, political, scientific, infrastructure and the social.
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