The prosecution of Derek Chauvin became a cause for our racial hustlers and professional elites, but the cause is politics, not justice

JOE BIDEN, a veteran Democratic Party politician, was generally seen as the continuity candidate when he ran successfully for the presidency of the United States. "Continuity" here means with the previous Democratic administrations of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

Nearly 500,000 young workers have lost their jobs since January 2020

For revolutionaries, although elections matter, the battle on the streets and in the workplaces is always more important

The scandal of former prime ministers joining with top civil servants to lobby the government for private sector gains grows hotter by the day. Sadie Robinson gathers what we know so far, and concludes that the problem is deeply rooted in capitalism

How many workers went on strike in 2020? One good answer might be "not enough".

If tens of millions of people had not taken to the streets and defied the cops then Floyd's case would have been just another scandal covered up by a corrupt system

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of the murder of George Floyd in a Minnesota courthouse on Tuesday

Things are unraveling fast. The slide seems to be glacially slow and then change comes very suddenly. Three arenas of significant political change appear to be converging simultaneously: the very n…

It is certainly welcome news from the briefing room that President Joe Biden is hosting a virtual summit on Climate change about now with other world leaders, though our Nicola has been left off th…

Labour fears one of its strongholds may lose out in the first elections for a new unitary council.

Conor Murphy warns provision of vital public services could be pitted against the needs of victims.

The explosion is now being described as the biggest violation of Czech sovereignty since Soviet tanks entered the country in 1968

The British love nothing more than a story about a twee, mediocre national icon, bringing us together in slightly self-conscious, self-deprecating pride/outrage (delete as appropriate). So in these tense times, Marks and Spencer claiming violations of its intellectual property rights over the bafflingly popular Colin the Caterpillar cake has been gratefully seized upon. Last week, […]

In what dystopian world could support for Kobanê as it withstood siege by ISIS be considered a crime? The answer, it seems, is in Turkey. On 26 April, 108 leading members of the leftist pro-Kurdi…

When the Lugano convention was dreamed up it was (genuinely) a progressive step on getting international courts to work together

What starts as the European Super League will only grow more cynical, more global, more detached from what people actually want

Blues and Royals tribute to Duke of Edinburgh, in pictures

Shops have been boarded up and barbed wire and fencing surround the court house in Minneapolis as the trial nears its conclusion

The Australia-UK agreement is of potentially significant commercial benefit to both countries, but its real value goes much further than mere economics.  It extends to geo-strategic considerations (shared with many others) related to China's increasingly assertive, muscular role in the world.  Big platform free trade agreements such as CPTPP can play an important part in […]