On 15 March 2024, supporters of RATB protested outside the offices of London resident and DCD Rights’ Head of IT Mickael Behn against his $440m lawsuit targeting cruise ship companies previously involved in tourism to Cuba. Text and photos: RATB After lobbying US politicians, both Democrat and Republican, […]
In Focus
In Focus
Gaza: From open-air prison to cemetery
The shortage of food in some areas of the Gaza Strip has already far exceeded famine levels, and mass deaths are imminent without an immediate ceasefire and increased supplies to zones isolated by fighting. This is the warning from the Hunger Observatory, supported by Josep Borrell, the High Representative […]
Inequality, eroded democracy and populism
Covid-19 recovery is measurably and visibly occurring in many countries, but low-income countries have not even returned to 2019 levels, according to this analysis produced since 1990 by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Elizabeth Borrego The poorest nations are stagnating and, in many of them, conditions are […]
Mick Lynch: a trade union hero
The General Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) shot to fame in 2022 when his union members took industrial action and went on strike. Sean Sheehan His television interviews with trashmongers like Piers Morgan and Richard Madeley are the stuff of legend […]
Brain ‘power’, identity and ‘reasoning’
On 6th of January BBC1 News reported that research shows that brain ‘power’ starts to decay earlier than was thought … Reasoning powers diminish from age 40 or so… Nigel Pocock Is an implied brain ‘power’ only about ‘reasoning’? This statement is extremely simplistic; making good judgements is […]