Beware of Biden’s empty promises

Joe Biden was set to become US president on Wednesday this week, but don’t think that means justice for black people or an end to attacks on workers.

Joe Biden can’t contain the deep bitterness that exists in the US

Democrats offered no hope to US electorate

End cops’ racist system

A BBC Panorama programme this week shone a light on deaths in police custody. Just days before it was broadcast, Mohamud Hassan died after being held by police in Cardiff, south Wales.

‘Fire and rehire will be the norm if we don’t fight,’ says British Gas striker

Thousands of British Gas workers were set to strike on Wednesday and Friday this week, and Monday next week.

Vaccine hesitancy a result of racism

Parents denied furlough payments by the bosses

Egypt, revolution, workers, women, strike, walkout

The Egyptian Revolution—18 days that shook the world

Toulouse, France, Health workers, doctor, nurse, occupation, trade union, coronavirus, safety

‘Our action is a real step forward,’ say French health workers ahead of strikes

The Troublemaker—Tories criminalise Travellers who have no place to go

Turn rage against the Tories into action

Keir Starmer, Labour, parliament, House of Commons, politician, right wing

Labour woos the bosses and maps out a path to the right

A series of speeches by leading Labour figures have mapped out a further shift right, says Nick Clark

Thousands of workers forced back to unsafe workplaces

Thousands of workers across England have felt pressured to return to workplaces, despite government advice to work from home.

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Cardiff BLM activists defiant after fine for protests over Mohamud Hassan’s death

Israeli group labels regime ‘apartheid’ in a new report

Alexandra Kollontai—a fighter from the struggle

The social media bosses are not on our side

‘Intensive care is in crisis and it’s about to get worse’—nurse speaks out

Comment

Mike Davis—‘Put forward radical demands and match the mood for socialism’

US writer and activist Mike Davis spoke at a Socialist Workers Party meeting this week on what the US crisis means for those at the top of society—and for the left

Indian government’s attempts to sow division fail to stop farmers’ protests

India’s highest court has decided to suspend temporarily the implementation of new farming laws that led to a huge, weeks-long protest movement.

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Letters

I write as a grandparent of two primary age grandchildren and as a retired teacher. I think there is a lot of pressure from the department for education on heads to try to force their staff to provide huge amounts of work for their pupils

Troublemaker

Travellers will bear the brunt of a new discriminatory law from the Tories.

Background check

Bosses claim they ‘can’t afford’ to keep people on because of the crisis. There’s money—but it will take a fight to take it off the rich, writes Sadie Robinson