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Call out failure, get Fujitsued
The IT firm that sued the government for its own poor work also supplied the faulty equipment that saw innocent workers jailed for theft. How were they rewarded? With more state contracts, explains SOLOMON HUGHES
UNJUSTLY ACCUSED: Subpostmasters (left to right) Seema Misra, Janet Skinner, Jo Hamilton and Tracy Felstead were all victims of Fujitsu’s Horizon IT system
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A champion motorcyclist, trade union organiser and communist, Clem Beckett went from Britain’s speedway tracks to the battlefields of Spain, where he gave his life resisting Franco’s forces at Jarama. GEOFF BOTTOMS pays tribute to this remarkable anti-fascist
The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
Claiming to ease a fertiliser shortage, the Trump administration has suspended tariffs on Moroccan phosphate imports – deepening US support for the Morocco’s control over Sahrawi territory, writes LUKE ROTELLO
COMPUTER corporation Fujitsu are involved in one of the worst miscarriages of justice of our times — the persecution of innocent subpostmasters, wrongly accused of theft.
This is not the only public scandal that which has involved Fujitsu — but thanks to the ongoing enthusiasm for privatisation and their own political lobbying, Fujitsu is still a favourite supplier to the public sector.
This month 39 subpostmasters, who had been found guilty of fraud and theft, had their convictions overturned at the Court of Appeal. They are among more than 500 subpostmasters who were wrongly prosecuted for fraud in the local post offices they ran.
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