The TGI Friday’s branch in Aberdeen Photo Lynne Cameron/PA Images Union announces further ballots for strike action against exploitative practices ...more
Picturehouse workers stage a demonstration for living wages and fair working conditions. Labour will tackle the inequalities in our economy, deliver investment to every part of the UK and develop an industrial strategy to create highly paid, highly skilled work. We will tackle tax avoidance through a Tax Transparency and Enforcement Programme, closing loopholes. There will be no income tax rises for those on less than £80,000 a year and no increase in personal National Insurance or VAT rates. Nor…
Against incredible odds, Palestinians continue to resist Israel’s system of oppression, demanding freedom and justice and calling on people of conscience here in the UK to do all we can to stop UK corporations from supporting – and profiting from – Israeli apartheid. That’s what this campaign is all about. During recent demonstrations in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military has once again shown the world its willingness to turn deadly force on unarmed civilians. Despite calls for restraint from…
At the start of this year, an unreported change took place in the union movement – one that could set the ball rolling for a significant shift in British politics. In recent years, trade unions have opposed reforming Westminster’s voting system. The last time we had a choice about electoral systems – the Alternative Vote referendum in 2011 – Labour was undecided, and many unions opposed reform. At the time one union leader argued: “first-past-the-post delivers strong, single-party government.” After…
On the 26th March 2017, citizens from the mountainous municipality of Cajamarca, Colombia, voted, with a 98% majority, to ban South African miner AngloGold Ashanti’s vast La Colosa gold mining project, in a ‘popular consultation’ led by grassroots youth activists and small-scale farmers. One year on, and Cajamarca’s victory has helped inspire a much wider movement of citizens and municipalities exercising their democratic right to participation. 9 other municipalities have held consultations, each rejecting planned mining, gas and oil projects…
The current debacle over the wrongful attempted deportations of citizens from the Windrush generation highlights a key difficulty that people from across the political spectrum have in understanding that many Black and Minority Ethnic inhabitants are – and always have been – citizens. They did not come to Britain as migrants, but as citizens – and a failure to recognise that fact reveals how talking about ‘migrants’ is often a dog-whistle for talking about race. Much of the debate prior…
Every now and then, you get a sense that a government might cave. One defeat here, a poll there, senior officials making their opposition heard. That’s how it feels with the Customs Union. Foreshadowing this was Labour’s shift in February, with the party agreeing the UK needed to stay in a customs bloc with the EU. This week we’ve seen fresh momentum build for…
The Labour party’s social housing Green Paper – ‘Housing for the Many’ – will form the bedrock on which a future Labour government will build 1 million truly affordable homes over ten years. But what are the details? The government’s so-called ‘affordable rent’ programme, delivered by housing associations with rents set up to 80% of market rents, will be scrapped according the Green Paper.…
Pic: Enoch Powell (centre) in Channel 4’s ‘After Dark’ show, 1987 Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of Enoch Powell’s ‘rivers of blood’ speech – one of the most divisive pieces of oratory of the modern era. At the time, an opinion poll showed that 78% of the population agreed with the basic premise that underpinned his speech – namely, that there was a danger…
The Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee (HCLG) has suggested today that landlords found repeatedly exploiting vulnerable tenants should face having their properties confiscated. But for housing activists the measures, while well meant, do not go far enough. Mostly because even existing laws protecting tenants from bad landlords can barely be enforced due to lack of resources. Speaking to Left Foot Forward, Generation Rent campaigns…
The European Commission intends to ‘fast track’ a proposed EU-Japan free trade agreement in an effort to circumvent any campaign across the EU from groups and trade unions opposed to trade agreements which have not have been subjected public scrutiny. The move would also avoid the debacle of the trade deal with Canada (CETA) which was almost derailed two years ago. The European Union and…
Bridge of Spies star Mark Rylance is not one to keep his political cards close to his chest, and this week he made his position clear by holding a rather large “Vote Green” placard in a photo op with his local council candidates. The actor, who lives in the borough of Lambeth, south London, was pictured with aspiring councillors Nick Christian, Matt Reynolds and Becca…
A woman in divided Taiz province is trying to empower other women and girls to obtain brighter future.
Democrats filed a lawsuit against Russia and the Trump campaign, but their lawyers didn't properly define 'computer'.
After days of government raids, rebels agree to leave Qalamoun while other groups hold on to areas in capital's south.
The 17th Tribeca Film Festival includes a conscious effort to bring parity to the sexes in an industry rocked by the Harvey Weinstein scandal and the #MeToo movement.
What's behind the IMF's and the World Bank's warnings about a looming global economic downturn?
Pension cuts triggered mass demonstrations, which have led to several deaths, and now, the government is attempting to control coverage of the protests by shutting down independent media outlets.
Protests against corruption and a regional leader have turned into riots and looting, prompting Cyril Ramaphosa to cut short his trip to the UK and return to South Africa.
ETA, one of Europe's most-enduring and violent armed groups, has disarmed and issued in advance of its expected full dissolution in May.
Good news from federal agencies can feel like a rarity these days, but this dispatch from the Environmental Protection Agency is an excellent reminder that staffers deep in the government are hard at work to build a better world. In draft guidance on skin allergy testing for pesticides and industrial chemicals, the EPA is encouraging researchers to move away from the use of animal models. Such testing is legally required to determine the level of hazard that various industrial products pose. Scientists…
Honest, fearless media is needed more than ever, and nonprofit newsrooms like Truthout need all the help we can get. Can you take a few seconds to support this important work? Puebla, Mexico, 8 April 2018: An annual Easter march to shine a light on the plight of Central Americans living in a region with the highest murder rate in the world drew the attention of international aid groups, the…
Truthout can only survive through reader support. Click here to make a tax-deductible donation toward journalism with real integrity and independence! When she was growing up, Rachel Bailey was taught that only rich, self-indulgent White people suffered from mental health issues. Black people were supposed to be tougher. Although she remembers struggling with what was later diagnosed as bipolar disorder since she was 4 years old, it wasn't until age…
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North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, announced early Saturday that he had stopped nuclear and missile tests and would close a nuclear test site. The announcement, reported by North Korea’s state media, appeared to signal a major policy shift ahead of Mr. Kim’s meetings with the South Korean and American leaders. Source: New York Times The post Kim Jong-un said North Korea would “no longer need” nuclear tests and would close…
The Democratic National Committee opened a new legal assault on President Trump on Friday by filing a lawsuit in federal court alleging that the organization was the victim of a conspiracy by Russian officials, the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks to damage Hillary Clinton’s presidential run. The 66-page lawsuit, filed in federal court in New York, assembles the publicly known facts of the investigation into Russia’s election meddling to accuse Mr.…
The resignation of a council leader would normally be no biggie. I mean, I’m guessing entirely here, but presumably that happens in towns or cities across Britain several times a year, for one reason or another. These things usually merit a run of front pages in the local press, and perhaps a short mention or two nationally. They are then swiftly forgotten, as just another ego-driven municipal hissy fit over…
If I were official keeper of the Croslandite flame, easily the most renowned contemporary advocate of that standpoint, I’d be humble enough to ponder why my preferred brand of politics carried such little traction in Britain in 2017. As a serious partisan of social democracy, I would ask why ideas of the stripe that until recently dominated Labour now fail to enthuse its membership. Might that indicate shortcomings in the…
National Executive Committee Away Day 26 November 2017 This NEC was the annual ‘Away Day’, where ‘blue sky thinking’ is encouraged. This year we held our meeting in Glasgow where we were warmly welcomed by the new leader of the Scottish Labour Party, Richard Leonard and the very enthusiastic Scottish Executive Committee (SEC), and part of the meeting was held jointly with the SEC. Procedure for the election of the NEC…
The president of the United States says the former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation broke the law when he leaked classified documents to the press.
The mayor of a city in France's Normandy region says a 103-year-old nun known as the "White Angel" to allied soldiers injured during a failed World War II raid has died.
Seventeen people are dead after two dragon boats capsized in southern China.
Dani Rodrik Why were democratic political systems not responsive early enough to the grievances that autocratic populists have successfully exploited – inequality and economic anxiety, decline of perceived social status, the chasm between elites and ordinary citizens? Had political parties, particularly of the center left, pursued a bolder agenda, perhaps the rise…
George Tyler Three senators have introduced unprecedented legislation mandating that employee representatives must comprise one-third of Boards of Directors at publicly-listed US corporations. Upgraded corporate governance with codetermination is an unfamiliar concept to most Americans. Its appearance acknowledges the weakness of conventional tools to end wage stagnation. And it reflects frustration by…
Ngaire Woods “Don’t get mad, get even.” That aphorism needs to become the new norm in democratic politics across Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Rather than complaining about populist successes, established political parties should take a page from the populist playbook. Three lessons, in particular, cry out for attention. The first…
Silvio Berlusconi, the leader of Italy's Forza Italia (Go Italy!) party, on Friday ruled out forming a coalition government with the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement six weeks after a national vote ended in deadlock.
The party alleges in the federal lawsuit in Manhattan that top Trump campaign officials conspired with the Russian government and its military spy agency to hurt Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton
The U.S. State Department on Friday labelled China, Russia, Iran and North Korea as "morally reprehensible" governments it said violated human rights within their borders on a daily basis, making them "forces of instability as a result."
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The Wall Street Journal quotes a Trump lawyer saying that Michael Cohen is likely to flip: One of President Donald Trump’s longtime legal advisers said he warned the president in a phone call Friday that Michael Cohen, Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer and close friend, would turn against the president and cooperate with federal prosecutors if faced with criminal charges. Mr.…
After the release of the Comey memos yesterday which backed up every claim the ousted FBI Director has made so far, many journalists and politicians are wondering why House Republicans demanded they be released at all and went as far as trying to intimidate Rod Rosenstein by saying they would impeach him if he didn't release them. Steve Benen, a…
I hope you've all done your stretches, because you're gonna need it for the mental gymnastics required to follow this guy's logic. Erin Burnett's face is positively meme-worthy in more than one place, but I'll leave that to the techno-smarties. Trump's former attorney, Jay Goldberg appeared on CNN yesterday with some analysis and predictions about Michael Cohen. Trump called him…
CHARLES PAYNE (HOST): Washington, DC, looking to lower the voting age for federal and local elections, potentially making way for 16-year-olds to vote. Proponents point to the student movement in the wake of the Parkland massacre. Yet, of course, these are the same folks that are pushing for gun ownership to be raised to 21 years of age. So it really doesn't seem…
GRANT STINCHFIELD (HOST): Barack Obama, if you want to talk about inequality and gun violence, you are the biggest perpetrator of it. Because while you left educators defenseless, while you pushed policies that barred violent students from being arrested, while you railed against the NRA, your daughters, yourself were all protected by armed guards. Your daughters in a school with…
ANDERSON COOPER (HOST): Now you might wonder where did Whitey Bulger come into all of this? Why are we even talking about Whitey Bulger, notorious crime boss and secret FBI informant? Well it seems as if this may have started with the esteemed Alan Dershowitz saying this on a radio show earlier this month, not about Comey, but about special…
Scientists have shown that the Australian Magpie may 'dunk' its food in water before eating, a process that appears to be 'copied' by its offspring.
For more than 50 years, the Kardashev scale has been the gold standard for classifying hypothetical 'exo-civilizations' by their ability to harness energy. A team of researchers has devised a new system that takes into account the impacts of that energy use.
Scientists studying African wild dogs in Botswana have found members of this endangered species use sneezes to vote on when the pack will move off and start hunting.
The Commonwealth is a bastion of homophobia. Thirty-six of the 53 member states criminalise same-sex relationships, with penalties ranging up to life imprisonment in in nine countries and the risk of execution in parts of two, Pakistan and Nigeria. Despite this outrageous persecution,…
In spite of accumulating countless TV documentary filmmaking ‘air miles’ over the last thirty-odd years, I found Rivers of Blood: 50 Years On a highly challenging project to work on for a variety of reasons. To begin with, aside from producing and…
On April 20th, 1968 Enoch Powell made a speech in Birmingham that to this day overshadows every government’s attempts to speak on immigration.Franklin Thomas, 73, was serving in the British army at the time Powell delivered his speech. He spoke to HuffPost…
A deceivingly heavy bag of groceries in one hand, two gallons of milk in the other and newly bloomed daffodils that smell of spring in abundance balancing in the crevice of my right elbow. I struggle slightly to reach the doorbell, and…
.@HackneyAbbott tells Brixton’s Windrush rally she “won’t stop until I have got justice” pic.twitter.com/MAetUfQywE— George Bowden (@georgebowden) April 20, 2018Labour’s Diane Abbott joined campaigners vowing to “get justice” for those caught up in the Windrush generation scandal as the Prime Minster backed…
Stone age brain surgery — on a cow. Many early societies had a rather unexplained thing for trepanation—the practice of cutting holes in the skull. The mysteries surrounding this practice are many. How did cultures, and we’re often talking early Stone Age cultures, that presumably had neither anesthetics nor antibiotics carve…
Quarterly fundraising reports for federal candidates, covering the period from Jan. 1 to March 31, were due at the Federal Elections Commission on April 15 at midnight Eastern Time. Below is our chart of fundraising numbers for House candidates in all key races this cycle. (Click here for our companion…
The leader of the free world—otherwise known as the Dotard-in-Chief—has had a busy Saturday morning. Before taking off for Day 149 of golfing while president, Donald Trump apparently read Friday’s New York Times and learned that there’s a lot of speculation about his good friend and lawyer Michael Cohen, who once said he’d…
Leading Off ● New Jersey: On Tuesday, Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed automatic voter registration into law, making New Jersey the 11th state (plus the District of Columbia) to approve this reform. Eligible voters who do business with the state Motor Vehicle Commission will be automatically registered, unless they opt…
Politico: McConnell aims to reshape courts in case Senate flips The Kentucky Republican is prioritizing confirmation of conservative judges in what may be his final months as majority leader. Mitch McConnell is making a last dash to stock the judiciary with conservatives this year as a hedge against the chance…
Republicans are already finding it a challenge to run on their single new legislative accomplishment in the Trump era—the tax scam. Voters are underwhelmed by it, if not downright hostile to it, and most people just aren't going to see much relief from it at all. Meanwhile, they're seeing headlines…
The Democratic group raised $4.5 million in the first quarter, plus $2.2 million for an allied nonprofit.
Speakers and volunteers pushed a voter registration drive and vowed to oust lawmakers who oppose gun control.
The president, who campaigned on a noninterventionist platform, has followed the path of his predecessors and reversed himself in office.
‘A cleaning is in order,’ wrote a former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, as State Department officials reassigned a career diplomat of Iranian descent.
Political cartoons from the desk of Matt Wuerker.
Democratic enthusiasm was real, but not as off-the-charts statewide as early voting numbers had hinted.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says America will level additional sanctions 'to hold Russian government officials and oligarchs accountable.'
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The TGI Friday’s branch in Aberdeen Photo Lynne Cameron/PA Images Union announces further ballots for strike action against exploitative practices ...more
Demonstrators take part in the 'Britain Needs a Pay Rise' march in central London, organised by the TUC as public sector workers are calling for an end to austerity and to highlight the need for pay to increase following days of industrial…
Olympique Lyonnais Saki Kumagai celebrates scoring her team’s first goal against Manchester City, during the UEFA Women's Champions League semi-final at the Academy Stadium, Manchester, in 2017 Photo Martin Rickett/PA Wire ASIF BURHAN assesses the challenge posed to Manchester City and Chelsea…
Photo Ade Marsh Photography THIS weekend sees the picturesque Quorn Grange hotel located in Quorn, Loughborough, open its doors to young trade unionists for a weekend full of inspiration, opportunity, education and networking. ...more
THIS weekend sees the picturesque Quorn Grange hotel located in Quorn, Loughborough, open its doors to young trade unionists for a weekend full of inspiration, opportunity, education and networking. The hotel, which is owned by the General Federation of Trade Unions, is…
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger holds up the Barclaycard Premiership Trophy to thousands of jubilant fans outside Islington Town Hall in North London in 2004 Photo PA Wire/PA Images Wenger to step down after 22 years at Arsenal ...more
The president of the United States says the former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation broke the law when he leaked classified documents to the press.
The mayor of a city in France's Normandy region says a 103-year-old nun known as the "White Angel" to allied soldiers injured during a failed World War II raid has died.
Seventeen people are dead after two dragon boats capsized in southern China.
A menu for the first meal served on the Titanic has sold for STG100,000 ($A183,500) at auction in the UK.
Former first lady Barbara Bush has been remembered at her funeral as a formidable but caring figure whose devotion to her family was matched only by her commitment to public service.
Four people have been arrested and a factory that packaged counterfeit baby milk mostly destined for China dismantled in a northeastern city in Spain.
Keith Davidson, who reached multiple agreements with Michael Cohen in recent years, has provided certain electronic records to investigators, a spokesman said Friday.
From the release of James Comey’s private memos about his meetings with President Trump to developing talks with North Korea, let us catch you up on six big stories from the week.
The department has begun dismissing civil rights cases brought by “serial” complainants or those that place “an unreasonable burden” on resources.
The deputy attorney general’s decision to release the memos did little to help Republicans undermine the credibility of James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director.
The lawsuit accuses Mr. Trump’s associates of illegally working with Russian intelligence agents to interfere with the outcome of the 2016 election.
The accusations against the agent, who had been stationed in Colombia, could make it harder for U.S. officials to earn the trust of confidential informants in the shadowy world of drug trafficking.
The State Department report, which this year underwent significant alterations that reflected the change in administrations, also reproached Iran and North Korea.
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with retired Gen. Martin Dempsey about President Trump's proposal for an Arab Force in Syria, and U.S. efforts to get the Saudis and other Arab nations to fund and man a joint military force in the past.
Allowing cinemas is part of a modernization drive by the Saudi government, which hopes to create more business opportunities and become a regional film hub. But it's a tough place to be a filmmaker.(Image credit: Bandar Al-Jaloud/AFP/Getty Images)
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons would not confirm whether its inspectors have entered Douma, the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack earlier this month.(Image credit: Hassan Ammar/AP)
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said a team of nine inspectors arrived in Damascus on Saturday but hasn't been allowed to go to the site of the alleged chemical attack.(Image credit: Peter Dejong/AP)
On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by Lea Ypi, professor in political theory at the LSE, to discuss ways of thinking about migration, what it tells us…
Actor Michael Balogun tells his story of spending much of his young life in and out of prison to hosts Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann. The first…
On Saturday 14 April, the UK joined the US and France in carrying out airstrikes against chemical weapons facilities in Syria. Despite the fact that only 25%…
Momentum’s National Co-ordinator Laura Parker joins Max Shanly and Matt Zarb-Cousin on All The Best to discuss the new “centrist” party, rampant inequality, first principles political communications,…
Early on Saturday morning, British jet fighters, alongside partners from the US and France, undertook joint airstrikes attacking chemical weapons facilities claimed to belong to the Syrian…
On this episode of TyskySour Michael, Aaron and Ash discuss whether Bashar Assad used chemical weapons in Syria and what the appropriate response should be.
A new report, based on the work of Thomas Piketty and his colleagues, offers a stark picture of the increasing concentration of wealth and income at a global scale.
In a series of interviews from Labor Notes, Sarah and Michelle talk to worker-organizers from Japan, South Korea, Puerto Rico, Minnesota, and beyond about building rank-and-file power around the globe.
Fifty years ago, British politician Enoch Powell set the template for a racist neoliberal populism that has reached its apotheosis today.
HAVANA (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro became on Saturday the first foreign leader to meet with Cuba's Miguel Diaz-Canel since he became president of the communist-run island this week, underscoring the importance of the Venezuelan-Cuban alliance.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he was considering pardoning the late boxing legend Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion of the world who was jailed after having a relationship with a white woman.
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabian security forces said they had shot down a recreational drone in the capital Riyadh on Saturday after online videos showed gunfire in the neighbourhood where royal palaces are located, sparking fears of political unrest.
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - A Libyan crude pipeline owned by the al-Waha oil company, feeding the port of Es Sider, was attacked on Saturday by a “terrorist group”, a company source said.
Some people have misguided, disheartening, and, sometimes, infuriating opinions about ADHD — and unfortunately, the people closest to us are…
The decision to medicate (or not) is an agonizing one. Naysayers argue that parents rush to medicate their kids, but we know this…
A Book About Anger for Kids Tigerace Books; $6.99 paperback, $2.99 KindleBUY THIS BOOK A cross between a children’s book…
Groundbreaking cancer research might have uncovered a 'one-time application' formula that can help immune cells to eliminate cancer tumors.
New drug candidate may change chemotherapy as we know it; this compound stops cancer cells from spreading and has no…
Compared with the plant-based omega-3 ALA, EPA and DHA — which come from fatty fish — are much better for…
