Alvaro Uribe is found guilty of witness tampering and procedural fraud, reports NICK MACWILLIAM
Trade unions must prepare to fight for workers facing the deepest recession on record
Organised action is needed now to avert the human, health and wider social costs of unemployment levels not seen since the 1930s, writes assistant general secretary of Unite STEVE TURNER
British Airways is among giant firms attacking its staff
On the anniversary of the implementation of the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, ROGER McKENZIE warns that the legacy of black enslavement still looms in the Caribbean and beyond
Starmer’s decision to recognise Palestine only as long as Israel continues to massacre its inhabitants has been met with outrage, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The creative imagination is a weapon against barbarism, writes KENNY COYLE, who is a keynote speaker at the Manifesto Press conference, Art in the Age of Degenerative Capitalism, tomorrow at the Marx Memorial Library & Workers School in London
RAMZY BAROUD explains why the world can no longer ignore Palestine
Starmer’s decision to suspend Diane Abbott yet again demonstrates a determination to maintain and propagate a hierarchy of racism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
WITH the tsunami of job losses we predicted when Rishi Sunak announced the phasing-out of the furlough scheme now coming to pass, the government’s reversion to type with a reliance on a failed “free market” demonstrates a complete failure to accept the role of state intervention to mitigate the impact of the crisis.
And their inability to deliver, in any sense of the word, an industrial strategy that puts working people, our families and communities first, or supports core industrial sectors central to economic recovery, is a gross betrayal of national responsibility.
We must take immediate measures to both protect jobs and instil confidence in sectors bearing the brunt of an unprecedented set of circumstances.
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