US Democrat presidential hopeful Joe Biden chose California Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate on Tuesday, in a choice that has split opinion ahead of November’s election.
Ms Harris became the first black woman and Asian American to stand for a major party in the race for the White House.
The former vice-president described her as “a fearless fighter for the little guy, and one of the country's finest public servants.”
On the 121st anniversary of communist Claudia Jones’s birth ROGER McKENZIE looks at political events that shaped her, and those she helped shape
1943-2025: How one man’s unfinished work reveals the lethal lie of ‘colour-blind’ medicine
ANDREW MURRAY looks back on the ignominious career of the former US vice-president, who died earlier this week
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators


