Protests across Britain show there is still anger more than a month after the Black Lives Matter movement erupted over the murder of George Floyd by police.

Priti Patel announces new racist regulation

The Tories’ new points-based system comes alongside brutal attacks on refugees, writes Sophie Squire

Over 100 Covid-19 outbreaks a week following lifting of lockdown

Figures released last week suggest that new infections are on the rise in dozens of towns and cities across Britain

Tories—not ‘political correctness’—are why sweatshops stayed open

Workers in Leicester were pushed to work in unsafe conditions for less than the minimum wage during the pandemic

Construction workers build fight for a safer industry

Members of the construction safety campaign organised a protest at the site of a crane collapse in east London last week.

UCU says reject new offer

Activists in the UCU union are organising to reject an offer on long-running disputes over pay, contracts, workload and equality.

Reports round-up: Government cleaners win Covid-19 sick pay battle

A campaign by the United Voices of the World (UVW) union has won at the Ministry of Justice, (MOJ) after bosses announced that its cleaners would receive full pay if self-isolating or ill.

Councils use virus crisis to plan grim new cuts

Local councils across England plan swingeing cuts in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Tower Hamlets workers are right to strike - and they need your solidarity

Council workers in east London are preparing for three days of strikes against a bullying management determined to undermine their terms and conditions.

Nissan workers protest against pensions attack

Hundreds of workers at the Nissan car plant in Sunderland protested on Saturday against attacks on their pension scheme.

Savage jobs massacre as bosses grab Tory bailouts

More than 60,000 workers were sacked or put at risk of redundancy last week. Some industry experts predict that as many as 250,000 people could be made redundant.

Grenfell dangers were ignored, inquiry hears

Fire safety concerns relating to Grenfell Tower were ignored, an inquiry into the 2017 fire has heard.

International

US ‘Strike for black lives’ called as details emerge of George Floyd’s killing

A coalition of trade unions and campaign groups in the US is organising a “strike for black lives,” set for Monday 20 July.

Right only narrowly win in Polish presidential elections

Right-wing president Andrzej Duda took 51.03 percent of the vote to narrowly beat liberal Rafał Trzaskowski who took 48.97 percent in the second round of the Polish presidential elections last Sunday.

Millions threatened by a famine driven by the coronavirus

The World Health Organisation recorded a record number of global cases on Sunday.

Comment

Cops reflect racism from the top of society

The police are to face a review into allegations of racial profiling. They must be found guilty

Movements will mean trouble for Trump

Donald Trump’s reaction to the two major crises in US politics has been to play to the most racist, reactionary sections of society. But it doesn’t look like it’s working for him.

Features

Ida B Wells, a writer who exposed the racist terror of lynching

'Tell the world the facts,' said Wells as she unmasked US racism

Tower Hamlets workers say, ‘We can win this strike’

Some 1,500 workers in east London are standing up to a bullying Labour council hellbent on making their lives worse. Sarah Bates spoke to strikers about why workers are angry, what’s at stake and why solidarity matters