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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What was missing from the Scottish Budget
There’s no sign of bold governance from the SNP, says CONRAD LANDIN
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
DEREK MACKAY pitched last week’s Scottish Budget in “sharp contrast to the chaos and uncertainty of the UK government.”
The chaos and uncertainty in Westminster was on such a scale that even north of the border, the Finance Secretary's announcements were overshadowed.
Few would admit to being grateful for this, but there’ll be smiles all round. For the SNP government, spending plans have not received the normal press scrutiny. And there is far less potential for political opponents to whip up a persistent story around an unpopular measure.
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