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Cagey record? You’re hired to run our prisons
Instead of admitting to the problems of privatised prisons in light of the embarrassing G4S and Serco scandals, the Tories have now hired a US firm with a similar rap sheet. SOLOMON HUGHES investigates
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
JUST before Christmas, a small local authority in Texas called Willacy County launched a lawsuit. They were suing a private prison company called MTC for a 2015 riot at a jail they ran in Raymondville, the biggest town — population 11,000 — in Willacy County. The riot led to the prison closing.
Like a lot of small towns in the US, Raymondville really depended on the prison. The jail paid Willacy County for every inmate it held.
This raised about $2.7 million a year — about a third of the county’s $8.1 million general budget. The prison also employed 400 local people. Willacy County are suing MTC for losses of “tens of millions of dollars.”
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Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Our members face serious violence, crumbling workplaces and exposure to dangerous drugs — it is outrageous we still cannot legally use our industrial muscle to fight back and defend ourselves, writes STEVE GILLAN
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street