As the RMT Health and Safety Conference takes place, the union is calling for urgent action on crisis of work-related stress, understaffing and the growing threat of workplace assaults. RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY explains
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A fake jihadi and the ‘war on terror’
‘Laptop bombardiers’ and neocons in the press were all too ready to believe ‘Islamist extremist’ Hassan Butt, who cast doubt on Western foreign policy’s role in encouraging terror. The trouble was Butt’s entire story was a con. SOLOMON HUGHES reports
In the third of a series of articles, Storming the Heavens author JENNY CLEGG introduces the key themes of her book on the Chinese revolution
The US president’s career is defined by a consistent use of racist tropes and provocation. Why are world leaders so silent over his repeated vitriolic prejudice, asks ROGER McKENZIE
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
NICK WRIGHT recalls one man’s journey from student revolutionary to Labour grandee – part of a wider world of working-class militants and communist activists whose lives shaped a generation and who should not be forgotten
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
HOW much does Western foreign policy contribute to Islamist terrorism?
It’s been a pressing question since the start of the “war on terror” that gets new attention after the current rash of terrorist acts.
To be clear: the responsibility for terrorism lies with terrorists. The people who blow themselves up, killing innocent kids in the Manchester Arena or who murder people with bombs or guns or lorries, vans and cheap knives are responsible for murder.
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