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CHRISTMAS 2025 is celebrated under the shadow of the hunger strikers imprisoned in British jails because of their solidarity with the Palestinian people.
A double whammy of crass Toryism hits today. First, the shameful news that Welsh Secretary David Jones was more interested in catching out ex-soldier Chris Caruana than hearing about the human price of the hated bedroom tax from one of the people it affects.
It reflects the fantasy-land bubble in which politicians such as the Clwyd West MP exist that his first response in a face-to-face meeting with one of his government’s victims was to challenge them on their party affiliation.
For Jones scoring political points might be the most important thing but in the real world it is the desperate scramble to scrape together enough cash to eat and pay the bills that occupies the mind.
After years of austerity and denial under a new Reform UK council, a failing Send service was pushed into the spotlight by staff, unions and parents — culminating in a £1.3m funding boost and a 50% increase in front-line workers. MARTIN PORTER explains
WILL DRY speaks to three former members of the armed forces about the political hypocrisy surrounding Armistice Day, how war is a function of class society, and the far right’s use of militarism and nationalism to divide working people
Research shows Farage mainly gets rebel voters from the Tory base and Labour loses voters to the Greens and Lib Dems — but this doesn’t mean the danger from the right isn’t real, explains historian KEITH FLETT
On the 80th anniversary of liberation from Nazi-fascism, left forces in Italy mobilise against genocide, armament, and the Meloni government, reports ANA VRACAR