This weekend's revelations about the conduct of party staff in undermining the 2017 general election campaign and abusing elected representatives demand an immediate investigation, argue Jon Trickett and Ian Lavery

A leaked report shows how right-wing Labour officials sabotaged the party during Jeremy Corbyn’s time as leader, writes Alex Snowdon

If the economy had continued to grow even at the modest rate of the later Leonid Brezhnev years, say 2.5 percent, then industrial production would, on this scale, have stood at 140 percent of 1990 levels. The net effect of thirteen years of capitalism was to leave Russia with half the industrial capacity that could have been expected even from the poorest performing years of the socialist economy.

"Labour's members – who dedicate their lives to campaigning for the party – will not tolerate staff on six-figure sums undermining their efforts from within." A CLP chair calls for an investigation and decisive action.

Labour must take swift and decisive actions over senior HQ staffers who actively undermined Jeremy Corbyn when he was Labour leader, unions and MPs said today.

Amazon has fired two Seattle-based employees who publicly criticized safety and working conditions at its warehouses during the COVID-19 pandemic, The Washington Post reports. User experience designers Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa were both fired on Friday after they tweeted criticism of the company, and offered to match donations to warehouse workers. Both had also previously criticized Amazon’s climate policies.

Call for investigation into ‘possible misuse of funds’ by senior officials on party’s right wing

Lascaris, a long-time activist, author and class-action lawyer who focuses on human rights and environmental law, should be known to many on the left. He is a board member of the Real News Network, a progressive outlet founded by Paul Jay and based in Baltimore and Toronto, and has spent many years campaigning for the rights of Palestinians, even leading a push within the Green Party to support elements of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement (BDS).

"Ford said the province will launch an enhanced action plan on Wednesday to fight COVID-19 in long-term care homes, which will address how to redeploy additional personal protective equipment and health-care staff to help contain the outbreaks. "We'll spare no expense to protect our most vulnerable," Ford said. "We have an inferno happening at long-term care." That plan includes reallocating hospital workers to high-risk homes where possible, Ford said, as well as sending infection control specialists to enhance protocols and ensure "everything possible is being done" to isolate patients and prevent the spread."