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RAMZY BAROUD sees Gaza abandoned while the genocide continues
Britain 2015: welcome to dead-end street
KRYSTYNA BOSWELL lost her home and her health amid the destructive poverty promoted by a remote neoliberal elite. Here she tells her personal story
ANDREW MURRAY offers some troubling thoughts on pressing political issues
Tensions have once again escalated between Egypt and Ethiopia over GERD, Africa’s largest hydroelectric project, and now Trump has offered to mediate. NICHOLAS MWANGI reports
The National Education Union general secretary speaks to Ben Chacko on growing calls to protect children from a toxic online culture
While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE
Unison Scotland’s BRENDA AITCHISON says her union won’t tolerate further cuts to public services
THE latest unemployment figures stand at 1.8 million, according to ONS figures revealed on March 18. The naive and privileged may think this is a reason to be cheerful, but the truth is very different. Unemployment figures have been manipulated for years to show what the government of the day wants the people to believe.
While the Tories and their supporters shout loudly about how the economy is in recovery and we are all doing very nicely, thank you, there is a bigger, generally silent and silenced voice that tells the painful truth of Britain in 2015.
The government would have us believe that the British economy is back on its feet and that we are all enjoying regular shopping sprees, second homes and new cars on the drives of our nice suburban mortgaged homes — well, apart from those few idle layabouts who live on the dole and don’t want to work.
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Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON
By making Personal Independence Payments harder to access, Labour is creating another barrier for those already struggling with soaring care costs, workplace discrimination and prejudiced employers, argues RUTH HUNT
Labour has announced it will spend billions on war instead of dedicating resources to saving children from poverty — they seem determined to drive those of us cursed with compassion to (assisted) suicide, writes MATT KERR