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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The Tories' failing programme for probation just stacks up the problems for the future
Napo general secretary 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
IT’S been four years since the introduction of former justice secretary Chris Grayling’s so-called Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) programme to rehabilitate offenders in England and Wales which has been under heavy scrutiny since before its inception.
If it wasn’t for Napo and our members pointing out the glaringly obvious flaws in these disastrously conceived plans, then it was the successive scathing reports from other quarters which have vindicated all of our predictions that the part-privatisation of probation was never going to fulfil its brief.
It all came to a head in June when the justice select committee’s eight-month inquiry concluded with chair Conservative MP Bob Neill branding the justice reforms “a mess” which left him unconvinced it could ever deliver and demanding an immediate government review.
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