By pressuring Mexico to halt oil shipments, Washington is escalating its blockade of Cuba into a direct bid for economic collapse and regime change, argues SEVIM DAGDELEN
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Organising against the great recession to come
A scatter-gun approach will not change the balance of power in the workplace. We need a focused national organising strategy informed by the best research and intelligence, says ROGER McKENZIE
As the government quietly upgrades the role of Britain’s special forces, their growing global footprint and near-total exemption from democratic oversight should alarm us all, says ROGER McKENZIE
A society that grows accustomed to ‘undesirable’ people also grows accustomed to undesirable deaths. Minneapolis serves as a wake-up call, including for our own refugee policies, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
Recent research pushes back the date of the earliest cave art by several thousand years. ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT look into the science applied
As Labour plans a centralised National Police Service, the resignation of a chief constable over the Maccabi football ban reveals how policing, technology and narrative management converge when public order and class power are at stake, says NICK WRIGHT
Sudan’s paramilitary attacked a Chadian military garrison, killing seven soldiers and prompting the government to issue a “final warning. PAVAN KULKARNI reports
ECONOMISTS and politicians are referring to this moment as the great recession to come.
As furlough ends, as spending plummets, as markets shrink and redundancies and cuts tsunami across the economy, trade unions will be left to defend our people from poverty and despair — our historic mission which sometimes we have failed to accept. Some theorists also suggest that trade unions will decline in numbers and power during recession.
As workers chase jobs that are disappearing and as those still in work desperately cling onto them, then so it goes that the unions will lose even more power and that the consequences of not making hay while the sun shines will hit us.
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