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
'There is now a mood of resistance'
Morning Star editor Ben Chacko speaks to FBU general secretary MATT WRACK about the union's plans to mount a campaign of mass non-compliance against the government's anti-strike Bill
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
“WE NEED to face up to the fact that if our approach is just protest and then compliance, we will keep complying while they take away every single right we’ve got.”
Fire Brigades Union general secretary Matt Wrack is insistent that trade unions cannot put their faith in the Tories’ anti-strike Bill being defeated, or overturned by a future Labour government.
They need a plan for how to derail it in practice. As we meet at the start of the May Day weekend, the FBU has just written to the Scottish and Welsh governments asking for meetings on building “a united campaign of resistance” against the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill, which both devolved administrations have condemned.
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