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The government’s plan to announce a bar on prosecutions of soldiers who killed in Northern Ireland was due on the same day as the inquest report into the Ballymurphy massacre. That saw British soldiers kill ten people in 1971.

Elections in Britain last week have led to announcements of the death of class and the end of a clear divide between “left and right”.

Left wing Labour MPs responded to the election results by appealing to Keir Starmer to bring them back into the fold. Meanwhile, Starmer prepared a further shift to the right.

After Labour’s disastrous showing in Hartlepool and in the local elections, Nick Clark asks why so many working class people have turned away from the party

After the successful national strike in Scotland by EIS-Fela union college lecturers, battles continue at individual colleges.

Workers at the University of Liverpool are set to stage three weeks of strikes to defend jobs. The action by nearly 1,300 UCU union members will see walkouts between 24 to 28 May, 1 to 4 June and 7 to 11 June.

Strikers at the Driver, and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) defied bosses’ threats and kept up pickets during their four-day walkout last week.

Suspended NEU union rep Louise Lewis returns to work following a series of strikes at North Huddersfield Trust School.

“We’re aiming for a knockout in round three, but if we have to go the full 12 rounds then we’re ready.”

An explosion of resistance against attempts to force Palestinians out of Jerusalem has exposed Israel’s racism and brutality.

Extra Life explores previous global pandemics to learn lessons in the fight against Covid-19

India’s Covid-19 crisis is spreading across the border into neighbouring Nepal.