The Mandelson scandal reveals a political settlement in which democratic choice is curtailed and the power of markets eclipses the will of voters – only the left can challenge this, writes JON TRICKETT MP
The Mulliez family – and their communist confrontation
SOLOMON HUGHES exposes the chancers behind Sitel, the ‘inadequate’ firm that won a contract for Britain’s contact-tracing system
Sitel call centre at the Maxim Business Park near Motherwell, North Lanarkshire
Corbyn’s intervention exposes a corrupted system, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
Paul Holden’s book, The Fraud, exposes a hidden war inside Labour, where claims of anti-semitism, amplified by media power and factional networks, were used to break Corbynism and recast the party. JOHN ELLISON revisits the scandals, investigations and suppressed evidence from that era
In the second of a series of articles, Storming the Heavens author JENNY CLEGG introduces the key themes of her book on the Chinese revolution
The growth of Cuba’s biotechnology sector is an example of how socialism can prioritise scientific innovation, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
Paul Holden’s The Fraud reveals how a network of donors, MPs and opaque organisations quietly organised to destroy Corbyn’s leadership and manufacture a new centre of power inside Labour, writes JOHN ELLISON
Systems of power enable, excuse and normalise abuse, while survivors are ignored and women’s exploitation is repackaged as commerce and choice, warns CHARLIE WEINBERG
TWO big lessons of the Covid-19 crisis come together as one: first, our government wants to take healthcare out of public hands when it can and hand it over to rich people and their corporations — including, it turns out, French billionaires.
Second, the pandemic is exacerbating inequality by really grinding at the less well-off, while the super-rich take the opportunity to become the super-richer.
“Contact tracing” is a well-established response to disease outbreaks. Typically, public and local health officials “chase” a virus by interviewing infected people to find out who they have been in contract with.
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