There have been penalties for those who looked the other way when Epstein was convicted of child sex offences and decided to maintain relationships with the financier — but not for the British ambassador to Washington, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES
Seizing new opportunities to celebrate our history
We must memorialise more of the important events of the workers' movement with real-world events, writes TAM KIRBY, as a new miners’ gala in Fife takes shape
Labour’s new Treasury unit will ‘challenge unnecessary regulation’ by forcing nominally independent bodies like Ofwat to bend to business demands — exactly what Iain Anderson’s corporate clients wanted, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
DR DYLAN MURPHY looks at a Big Brother Watch report which exposes the government as an enabler of DWP secret spying on benefit claimants
The EU faces a critical choice: will it remain in the shadow of an increasingly unreliable US ally, or will it forge its own path in a multilateral world where co-operation with China is essential, asks MARC VANDEPITTE as leaders meet for the EU-China Summit
A lot of discussion about how the left should currently organise – including debate on whether the Green Party is a useful vehicle for advance – runs the risk of refusing to engage with or learn from the reasons the left was defeated previously, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
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
ON Saturday, Fife Trades council held its annual International Brigade memorial event to remember the working-class people who went to Spain to fight fascism.
I smiled the whole day, not just because the turnout exceeded expectations but also because of the number of people there who I met for the first time. We were also so privileged to have Tam Watters, co-author of Our Fathers Fought Franco, speak at our reception after the memorial and the grandson of Tommy Bloomfield, who went to Spain not once, but twice.
Trades councils all over Britain hold similar events — May Day, International Women’s Day, Workers’ Memorial Day and International Brigade events. It is crucial we continue these events.
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