While international attention focuses on ceasefire frameworks, Israel is openly advancing plans for a permanent expansion of its control over Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD
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Predictably chaotic probation changes must be reversed
Ministers were warned about their disastrous reforms to the probation service but refuse to act to sort the mess out, writes IAN LAWRENCE
Researchers PAUL HOLDEN and JESSICA MURRAY are calling for whistleblowers and documentary records to uncover how Labour Together helped build the parliamentary majority that now dominates the Labour Party
Cuba continues to embody a vision of internationalism that imperialism has never forgiven, argues ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE explains why opposing war is inseparable from defending jobs, wages and public services – and why readers should come to the London Peace Conference on Saturday June 20
As protests erupt over Henry Nowak’s murder, ANDREW MURRAY argues that anger is being exploited to advance a wider racist and anti-immigration agenda
CARLOS MARTINEZ explains the sound case for car manufacturing co-operation with China
As Napo’s annual conference begins today, it seems timely to reflect on what has happened to a once award-winning public service in the last three years.
Transforming Rehabilitation, introduced by the then justice secretary Chris Grayling, was criticised by stakeholders from the day it was proposed as being an ill-conceived social experiment that would lead to public safety risks, a deterioration of quality and effectiveness, and a profit motive at odds with the service’s values.
Napo, one of the most critical voices at the time, predicted that the so-called reforms would result in chaos and poor standards both in service delivery and in the terms and conditions for staff.
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