In the wake of his recent humanitarian visit to Cuba, RICHARD BURGON points to the now urgent need to defend the island’s political sovereignty and its right to self-determination
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The police will need more than a new Bill to hold us back
DAN GLAZEBROOK meets young people in Oxford standing up to police harassment and intimidation
A woman is arrested during a Kill the Bill protest, London April 2021
Thousands of jobs are at risk across higher education, yet government funding appears only when universities can be linked to military objectives, says JO GRADY, in the run-up to the Stop the War International Conference this Saturday
The Wye, Usk, Arrow and Lugg were once treasured for their clean waters – today, pollution and corporate excess are fuelling demands for a return to public ownership, says MARK SEDDON
The new Employment Rights Act is a step forward, but restoring collective bargaining and union power remains essential to tackling insecurity, outsourcing and low pay, says PAUL WHITEHOUSE
Rising support for Farage’s party reflects Labour’s failure to defend working-class living standards or offer a credible alternative to neoliberal decline, says JOSEPH MILLS
Trade unionists are mobilising to support Cuban workers and public services, amid escalating US pressure on the socialist island. RONAN OGILVY explains
THE Policing Bill now being sent back to Lords and on its way to becoming law, will ramp up police powers to unprecedented levels.
Firstly, it will give the police virtually limitless powers to declare demonstrations illegal and arrest all those in attendance, on the flimsiest of pretexts. Up until now, police could only ban demonstrations if there was a serious threat of public disorder or criminal damage.
This new Bill will allow them to do so on the grounds of such vague criteria as “serious inconvenience” or even “serious annoyance.”
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