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Cop City Atlanta is a privately funded, local community surveillance campus that has already taken the life of one protestor as a harbinger of the police state on the horizon.

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Letter from RMT head Mick Lynch last month offered talks but TSSA insiders say offer covered up by figures now condemned by Kennedy report on sexual harassment The scandal-hit TSSA union, whose management-backed merger with a right-wing US union fell through last year, has been in talks with another right-run union, the GMB – recently […]

James Wilson is suing James Mendelsohn, Edward Cantor and the late Peter Newbon for libel, misuse of private information, harassment, and breach of data rights. Dr Newbon died in January last year, with right-wing media attempting to blame his death on author Michael Rosen The High Court has today rejected an attempt by the defendants […]

Luke Chester was part of union’s ‘locus of power’ As Skwawkbox reported last night, the explosive report by Baroness Kennedy on sexual harassment and bullying within the TSSA union has already seen senior officers of the union removed or resign – and former general secretary Manuel Cortes had already ‘retired’ under a cloud last year […]

By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost O.K., you have a speech of 7,000–odd words to deliver to Congress. It ought to run about an hour as these things go. But you have nothing to say.  Call Joe Biden.  He certainly got the job done Tuesday evening. But I am confused as to our 46th […]

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‘Sexual harassment is caused by the very structures in McDonalds’, says Bakers’ general secretary The Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) has issued a statement cautiously welcoming an ‘intervention’ by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and a statement the ERHC and the McDonalds fast-food chain are preparing to issue on an agreement […]

“[I]t stretches credulity for me that the internal management and President of the TSSA were not aware” The President and Treasurer of the TSSA union have resigned with immediate effect, following scathing criticism – though by no means only of them – and a demand for their departure in Baroness Kennedy’s report on sexual harassment […]

Right-wingers hammered in Socialist Health Association elections said to be aiming to disaffiliate SHA on pretext after organisation condemned Starmer and sidekick Streeting for appalling health policy The Labour right is angling to kick the Socialist Health Association (SHA) out of the party after the faction was crushed in the SHA’s internal elections – and […]

Jeff Gerth’s investigation for The Columbia Journalism Review exposes the dark heart of the news media’s coverage of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections.

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The New York Times called it a “mystery,” but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now

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