SOLOMON HUGHES says even electoral defeat isn’t a deterrent to right-wing MPs: pro-corporate policies might lose elections but they can be lucrative nonetheless
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What is fraud?
Financial deceit has long been a feature of British capitalism, even if this isn’t always obvious, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Schools are at breaking point, argues NASUWT general secretary MATT WRACK — we urgently need investment in our kids’ futures
MIKE SCOTT assesses the AI threat to jobs in the first of a pair of articles on the problems it poses
Without energy and without a strategic partner, Cuba is currently fighting for its survival. While the population is literally sitting in the dark, the Trump administration is trying to definitively break the socialist project through economic blackmail. What lies ahead for the island, asks MARC VANDEPITTE
A setback for IG Metall at Tesla’s Berlin plant has ignited claims of intimidation and raised fears for the future of collective bargaining and workplace democracy, says TONY BURKE
The question for the media, in the US and across the globe, says ROGER McKENZIE, is will they do their job fearlessly and call Donald Trump out?
“FRAUD” is legally defined as “a deliberate act of deceit committed with the intention of gaining something unlawfully or unfairly.”
A dictionary definition provides the following: “deceit, trickery … or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.”
Key words here are: “deliberate,” “intention,” “gain” and “profit/unfair advantage.”
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