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Making a mockery of transparency
SOLOMON HUGHES asks why government ministers are keeping their talks with disreputable outsourcing firm Serco a secret
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
THE new Information Commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, says companies running government services should be covered by the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act.
She’s right. But at the same time the government is saying right now that its talks with one private provider, Serco, should remain secret.
Which is especially worrying because it says Serco’s government talks must be secret because the firm is helping it with “the formulation of policy.”
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