The Mandelson scandal reveals a political settlement in which democratic choice is curtailed and the power of markets eclipses the will of voters – only the left can challenge this, writes JON TRICKETT MP
Call out failure, get Fujitsued
The IT firm that sued the government for its own poor work also supplied the faulty equipment that saw innocent workers jailed for theft. How were they rewarded? With more state contracts, explains SOLOMON HUGHES
UNJUSTLY ACCUSED: Subpostmasters (left to right) Seema Misra, Janet Skinner, Jo Hamilton and Tracy Felstead were all victims of Fujitsu’s Horizon IT system
Corbyn’s intervention exposes a corrupted system, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
Paul Holden’s book, The Fraud, exposes a hidden war inside Labour, where claims of anti-semitism, amplified by media power and factional networks, were used to break Corbynism and recast the party. JOHN ELLISON revisits the scandals, investigations and suppressed evidence from that era
In the second of a series of articles, Storming the Heavens author JENNY CLEGG introduces the key themes of her book on the Chinese revolution
The growth of Cuba’s biotechnology sector is an example of how socialism can prioritise scientific innovation, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
Paul Holden’s The Fraud reveals how a network of donors, MPs and opaque organisations quietly organised to destroy Corbyn’s leadership and manufacture a new centre of power inside Labour, writes JOHN ELLISON
Systems of power enable, excuse and normalise abuse, while survivors are ignored and women’s exploitation is repackaged as commerce and choice, warns CHARLIE WEINBERG
COMPUTER corporation Fujitsu are involved in one of the worst miscarriages of justice of our times — the persecution of innocent subpostmasters, wrongly accused of theft.
This is not the only public scandal that which has involved Fujitsu — but thanks to the ongoing enthusiasm for privatisation and their own political lobbying, Fujitsu is still a favourite supplier to the public sector.
This month 39 subpostmasters, who had been found guilty of fraud and theft, had their convictions overturned at the Court of Appeal. They are among more than 500 subpostmasters who were wrongly prosecuted for fraud in the local post offices they ran.
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