As Colombia approaches presidential elections next year, the US decision to decertify the country in the war on drugs plays into the hands of its allies on the political right, writes NICK MacWILLIAM
The police need more than a change of leadership
The internal culture won't change until officers lose the feeling of being above the law — that means prosecutions for spy cops, deaths in custody and the other obvious crimes officers are never held to account for, argues PAUL DONOVAN
Former Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick in 2017
The move against alleged PKK members that sparked outrage as a community centre in north London was raided last year has now come to trial, writes TONY BURKE, but in the meantime, the peace process abroad has changed the situation almost entirely
A new report points a way to overcome complacent framing of climate issues, ‘by sparking a wider public reckoning with climate realities,’ and reconnecting with working-class people. IAN SINCLAIR reports
We cannot understand today’s world without understanding the rise of China – and we cannot understand China without understanding how it was shaped by the second world war, writes JENNY CLEGG
NICK WRIGHT reports from Italy, where 80 cities saw Gaza strikes as unions paralysed transport and massive crowds clashed with police in Milan — but France is also kicking off, and Westminster, in a very different way, is facing a crisis of legitimacy too
Escalating anti-China rhetoric from the West has a clear purpose – to manufacture consent for the new cold war, and potentially a hot one, argues CARLOS MARTINEZ
THE Metropolitan Police have never been far from the headlines recently. Met Commissioner Cressida Dick stood down after London Mayor Sadiq Khan expressed his displeasure at her performance.
There have been a series of scandals, including the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving policeman, the subsequent mishandling of a peaceful demonstration concerning her death, the poor investigation and subsequent promotion of some of the officers involved concerning the Stephen Port case and the taking and circulation of pictures taken of two dead young women by police officers.
In the Port case the Met has been accused of institutional homophobia over the investigation of the murders of four men. Seventeen officers from the case were cleared of misconduct, whilst seven have been promoted.
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