All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionised in a historic victory for labour, says RIO YAMAT
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Austerity is not a ‘necessity’ – it’s a deliberate political choice
From the astonishing decline in our living standards to the rise in precarious working, the scale of the Tory ideological assault on ordinary people can no longer be denied, writes STEVE TURNER
Letter to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper – to be delivered by a delegation of Jews to Downing Street today
Laughter has always been how workers cope and fight back, but university-educated union reps now scold members for calling bosses ‘money-grabbing bastards’ and label everyday humour ‘problematic’ — this needs to be stopped, writes MARK JONES
A new report validates disabled people’s criticisms of a welfare system which, under capitalism, is designed to punish rather than support, says Dr DYLAN MURPHY
The recent report by UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese revealed the web of global corporations that prop up and profit from Israel’s genocidal policies against the Palestinian people, write UBAI AL-ABOUDI and VIJAY PRASHAD
DAVID RENTON talks to former neonazi, now anti-fascist campaigner, Matthew Collins about the costs associated with challenging bigotry and extremism, and his role in helping avert the assassination of a Labour MP in 2017
TO govern is, we are told, to choose. This government chooses austerity. It does so not because it makes economic sense — it patently does not — but because it seeks to further tilt the balance of power and wealth towards those at the very top of our society.
That austerity has failed to build a sustainable economy for us all means that seven years on from Lehman Brothers’ collapse, our economy is still fragile and staggeringly ill-prepared should there be further economic tremors, even though many warn of gathering gloom.
Yet in a fortnight’s time, the Tory Chancellor will unleash the latest tranche of austerity — with some areas having their funding cut by an additional third.
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