United States
23 August 2020
Scapegoating is behind the Tory decision to scrap Public Health England (PHE), growing support for Scottish independence, plus more.
23 August 2020
The White House hopes that suppressing postal voting will deliver victory for Donald Trump in November’s presidential election.
21 August 2020
Wildfires have caused devastation across northern California with a state of emergency declared across the US state.
17 August 2020
For decades Arab rulers’ betrayals have allowed Israel to grab more Palestinian land under the guise of a “peace process”.
16 August 2020
As Democrats pick corporate favourite Joe Biden as their presidential candidate to face Donald Trump, Sophie Squire says hope lies outside the party machine
15 August 2020
When nine black teenagers were falsely accused of raping two white women in the US Deep South in 1931, most expected they’d suffer the death sentence. But, says Judy Cox, they’d reckoned without the Communist Party
07 August 2020
He said, “This is the twenty-seventh time I have been arrested. I ain’t going to jail no more. What we gonna start saying now is ‘Black Power’.”
04 August 2020
The American Civil Liberties Union is the focus of the resistance to Trump in documentary The Fight. But it can’t overcome its limitations
03 August 2020
Donald Trump is stepping up his right wing threats as he tries to secure his presidency.
02 August 2020
The World Health Organisation recorded the highest daily number of new cases globally on Saturday.
28 July 2020
The biggest teaching union in Florida has filed a lawsuit to challenge an order to reopen schools next month.
28 July 2020
Protesters in Portland, Oregon, have night after night fought back against repression by Donald Trump’s federal troops.
25 July 2020
Coronavirus continues to sweep across the globe, with underfunded and understaffed health services struggling to provide care.
22 July 2020
Anti-racist protesters in Portland, Oregon are continuing their battles against police and federal troops sent in by US president Donald Trump.
21 July 2020
Workers’ action on Monday showed the anger at racism and poor conditions, says Sophie Squire
12 July 2020
'Tell the world the facts,' said Wells as she unmasked US racism
09 July 2020
A coalition of trade unions and campaign groups in the US is organising a “strike for black lives,” set for Monday 20 July.
07 July 2020
Mrs America follows the political upheaval around the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s
07 July 2020
Ghislaine Maxwell is charged with procuring underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein to have sex with, and engaging in sexual activity with them herself.
07 July 2020
Israel stalled plans to annexe huge chunks of the Palestinian West Bank last week.