The British outsourcing giant quietly deleted mention of training US immigration agents after killings in Minneapolis intensified scrutiny of its controversial contracts. SOLOMON HUGHES reports
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The failure of the 2014 referendum was the lack of a third choice
Only a federated Britain of equal partners would be able to address the vast economic inequality within our island, on terms that would strengthen the working class, says KEITH STODDART
DECISION TIME? A view of Edinburgh’s famous Princes Street
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
By Henry Fowler, co-founder of Strike Map
By signing strategic defence agreements with Ukraine, the German government has reached a new dimension of war involvement, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
Born from exclusion and resistance, black British art has carved out creative space to tell untold stories and challenge racism, says ROGER McKENZIE
Your Party’s new membership rules pose a deeper question about socialist organisation: should a party lead the working class, or be led by it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
THIS year will be remembered in Scotland for Covid-19. In better circumstances it might have offered an opportunity for a full and searching national reflection on the 21st birthday of the Scottish Parliament and the question of where next for Scotland. This is what we need.
Our Parliament’s early days led to free bus travel for over-sixties, the ending of up-front fees for university, protections for further education, “free” personal care for the elderly, the ending of council house sales, feu (land tenure) duties and warrant sales.
In both composition and legislative programmes, the Scottish Parliament is not unlike Westminster, albeit without the boorish boys’ club vibe.
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