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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The numbers don't lie: black and Asian workers hit hardest
The country has been plunged into the worst cost-of-living crisis in living memory and pre-existing racial inequality only magnifies the impact, explains ROGER McKENZIE
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
THE Chancellor’s recent Spring Statement could have put in place measures to help people to put food on the table and to heat their homes but instead the Tories chose to prioritise the ideology that being in work is the way out of poverty and until then it’s everyone for themself.
As always, black people are at the sharpest end of poverty. Same as it ever was, as the song goes.
The statistics show that poverty rates for the Bangladeshi and Pakistani communities are already higher than other ethnic groups and are clearly set to get worse as the cost-of-living crisis bites.
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Social security is lagging further and further behind inflation and our government quite simply does not care, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY