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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WANTED: Unions that can combat racism in society and at work
Our unions must listen to Black workers to make real progress, argues ROGER McKENZIE
Roger McKenzie is a candidate for general secretary of Unison
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
To say that trade unions have an important role in combatting racism in society and in the workplace is something of an understatement.
What is really important is that the anti-racism work of trade unions shouldn’t be based on it being the latest fashion or simply thinking that you might look bad if you don’t do anything. Trade unions must be solidly committed to anti-racism for the long term.
Trade unions have come a long way from the early 1960s when the TUC passed a resolution protesting immigration while at the same time being content to accept the membership subs of Black workers.
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From the TUC Race Relations Committee to national union treasurers, a new generation of formidable black women leaders are breaking barriers and transforming the movement through uncompromising politics, writes ROGER McKENZIE
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