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Even Clinton is rejecting private prisons – so why isn’t Britain?
It’s pure folly to invite some of the US’s worst corporations over here to run our justice system, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
HILLARY CLINTON’S campaign for the presidential nomination includes the promise to “end private prisons.”
Which means a big part of US mainstream politics is running away from a policy that British politicians — Labour and Tory — have been running towards for a quarter of a century .
British governments embraced private prisons partly in imitation of US policies. We even bring in the big US contractors to run our jails. The current government has also started inviting the same private prison contractors in to run our probation services, in another disastrous privatisation.
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