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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Call out racism — get called a crank
ROGER McKENZIE braves the trolls to ask what the Labour Party and wider labour movement will actually do about the racism revealed in Forde and other reports
PASSING FAD? Now that the BLM moment has receded, will the labour movement make good on its promises to act on racism?
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
I RECENTLY had the temerity to wonder out loud on social media what the Labour Party intended to do about the racism exposed in the recent publication of the long-awaited Forde report.
Doing this on social media, without putting in place strict protocols about who can see your posts, is always a dicey thing to do of course.
You run the risk of coming up against one of those people who spend their lives searching for an opportunity to insult someone.
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