By pressuring Mexico to halt oil shipments, Washington is escalating its blockade of Cuba into a direct bid for economic collapse and regime change, argues SEVIM DAGDELEN
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We should never feel the need to apologise for black self-organisation
TUC Black Workers Conference serves to re-energise us for the continuing difficult struggle ahead, writes ROGER McKENZIE
The Aslef delegation at the Black Workers Conference in 2017
[Rod Leon]
As the government quietly upgrades the role of Britain’s special forces, their growing global footprint and near-total exemption from democratic oversight should alarm us all, says ROGER McKENZIE
A society that grows accustomed to ‘undesirable’ people also grows accustomed to undesirable deaths. Minneapolis serves as a wake-up call, including for our own refugee policies, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
Recent research pushes back the date of the earliest cave art by several thousand years. ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT look into the science applied
As Labour plans a centralised National Police Service, the resignation of a chief constable over the Maccabi football ban reveals how policing, technology and narrative management converge when public order and class power are at stake, says NICK WRIGHT
Sudan’s paramilitary attacked a Chadian military garrison, killing seven soldiers and prompting the government to issue a “final warning. PAVAN KULKARNI reports
The TUC Black Workers Conference opens today at a time of heightened debate about a perceived rise in racism.
I say perceived because many of us have been saying for some considerable time that racism in our lives — whether at work or in the streets — is almost a given.
Of course it’s correct to say that we are seeing much more fascist activity than we have for some years.
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I found myself alone as the sole reporter at Britain’s largest union conference, leaving stories of modern-day slavery and sexual exploitation going unreported: our socialist journalism is just as vital as the union work we cover, writes ROGER McKENZIE
ROS SITWELL reports from the Morning Star conference on ‘Race, Sex and Class Liberation’ last weekend
From the TUC Race Relations Committee to national union treasurers, a new generation of formidable black women leaders are breaking barriers and transforming the movement through uncompromising politics, writes ROGER McKENZIE