The UK Prime Minister may have the regal touch in northern England, but he’s been wrong-footed on the constitutional challenges posed by the Celtic Alliance of first ministers from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, argues KENNY MacASKILL
A global struggle against an elite that treats us as expendable
We are now seeing the greatest civil unrest since 1968. But what does it mean for our future? And who will be standing on the side of progress and protest – and who will be standing for reaction, asks DIANE ABBOTT
NEIRLAY ANDRADE, a member of the Communist Party of Venezuela’s political committee, outlines her party’s position on the crisis facing the country
A look at Taylor Wimpey’s accounts shows why Labour’s market-led housing strategy won’t deliver more, cheaper homes, as promised, says SOLOMON HUGHES
DAVID HORSLEY remembers the remarkable life and death of US black revolutionary George Jackson, whose politically passionate prison letters were published as Soledad Brother
Cuban trade union federation CTC leader OSNAY MIGUEL COLINA speaks to Ben Chacko about life and work under a crippling US siege
A part of the British empire’s network of slavery, today the Caribbean island of Nevis faces a new form of exploitation in the form of crypto-colonialism, CLAUDIA WEBBE writes
Challenges from the unscrupulous misuse of AI to steal actors’ voice and physical likenesses is being met with a firm union response, writes LYNDA ROOKE
WE ARE currently in the midst of three distinct but overlapping crises.
All of them are being exploited against the interests of ordinary workers, against black and Asian people and migrants and against countries outside the G7 club of rich countries.
In first place is the public-health crisis caused by the novel coronavirus, which is now responsible for over 400,000 deaths globally.
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