JEREMY CORBYN reports from Hiroshima where he represented CND at the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the city by the US

WITH organised lying and hypocrisy existing on an industrial scale in politics how can the black community, or anyone else, trust politicians to tackle the current surge of racism?
The simple answer is that we can’t. The solution is in our own hands.
Too many politicians feel the urge to drape themselves in a flag of phoney patriotism. They portray this as a sign that they can be trusted and believed even when the evidence is crystal clear that they are lying through their teeth.

ROGER McKENZIE reports on the west African country, under its new anti-imperialist government, taking up the case for compensation for colonial-era massacres

For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE