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• Corbyn: ‘We Didn’t Go Far Enough’

  Interview on his tenure, its controversies and its lessons
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  Cockburn: When Does Incompetence Become a Crime?

  Instead of relying on experienced public health experts with a successful record in finding, containing and isolating people infected with HIV and TB, the government handed the project over to the private sector
• Diouf Paye: Frontline workers and Covid-19: a carer’s account

  Ndella Diouf Paye writes about her experiences working as a carer for a private company
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  Cohn: Assange Faces Extradition for Exposing US War Crimes

  Three weeks of testimony in Julian Assange’s extradition hearing in London underscored WikiLeaks’s extraordinary revelation of U.S. war crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay
• James Davies: Solidarity and resistance: how renters are fighting against unjust evictions

  With the second wave of COVID-19 sweeping through the UK like a tsunami, a number of emerging key battlegrounds may define the future of the left
• Kinema: Power plays: the rise of game worker unions

  Amid global economic crisis, business is booming in the gaming industry. It's time to step up the fight for worker's rights
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  Pilger: Eyewitness to the Agony of Julian Assange

  Julian Assange is a threat to these recurring horrors—that’s why he is being persecuted, why a court of law has become an instrument of oppression, why he ought to be our collective conscience: why we all should be the threat.
• Below: Race, class and Covid-19

  The inextricable links between race, poverty and exploitation have been highlighted by the Covid-19 pandemic
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  Cook: The Guardian’s deceit-riddled new statement betrays both Julian Assange and journalism

  Of course, none of these corporate journalists – only Assange – is being put on trial, revealing clearly that this is a political trial to silence Assange and disable Wikileaks.
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  Edwards: The ‘War Against Us’ – The Battle of Britain And Steve Richards On ‘The Prime Ministers’

  Deeply embedded state-corporate forces relentlessly strive to keep our minds ‘right’ for patriotism, militarism and war, for the idea that ‘we’ are good, civilised while ‘they’ are not
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  Pilger: The Extradition Trial of Julian Assange

  The whole principle of the right to be free journalists is at stake
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  Camp: What’s the Difference Between ‘Villain’ Assange & ‘Intrepid’ Woodward?

  The next time you see a mainstream-media talking-head fawn over Woodward, just remember that if they had any backbone, any moral core, they would be fawning over Assange instead
• International: “We demand the immediate release of Julian Assange”

  PI Council Members support the freedom of Julian Assange against the unlawful and dangerous extradition trial against him currently taking place in London.
• Caballero: Am I a modern slave?

  Lyn Caballero describes her experiences as a migrant domestic worker and explains why domestic workers are campaigning for immigration policy change
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  Cook: The US is using the Guardian to justify jailing Assange for life. Why is the paper so silent?

  There are conomic forces that need a media elite, just as they do a political elite, to shore up an ideological worldview that keeps those elites in power. Assange threatened to bring that whole edifice crashing down
• Peggs: After the virus: no return to the old economy

  Alternative economic proposals the Labour left should be demanding
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  Monbiot: Extinction Rebellion is showing Britain what real democracy could look like

  The protest movement’s call for meaningful participation highlights the failings of dysfunctional Westminster politics
• Guinan: In and against, and outside, the party

  Following major defeats, the left on both sides of the Atlantic must urgently get stuck into community organising, movement building and political education
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  Monbiot: If you think the UK isn’t corrupt, you haven’t looked hard enough

  The UK’s economic and political life revolves around corruption
• Anonymous: Universities are being forced to lie about being COVID safe

  Universities know they will become infection hot-spots. But shutting before the government tells them to will leave them bankrupt