General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
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‘Bidenomics’ to austerity 2.0: what should we expect from the Budget?
In light of its retreat on green investment, DIANE ABBOTT MP dissects Labour’s economic priorities, questioning whether the promised ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ will materialise amid signs of continued cuts and massive spending on war
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves speaks during the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool. Picture date: Monday September 23, 2024
After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Bizarrely, Trump’s latest attacks now include the National Zoo, but his real and racist agenda is to strip everything black from the country’s cultural institutions, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The transformation of a stable secular state into a fractured ruin largely ruled by Western-backed fundamentalists exposes the hollow nature of ‘multipolarity’ and the absence of principled anti-imperialism today, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Facing economic turmoil, Jim Callaghan’s government rejected Tony Benn’s alternative economic strategy in favour of cuts that paved the way for Thatcherism — and the cuts-loving Labour of the present era, writes KEITH FLETT
The economic value of disability benefits far outweighs their cost, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
As tensions rise in the Middle East, the role of Iran in the region’s political balance becomes ever more significant. STEVE BISHOP assesses the current situation
NOW that the party conference season is over, the next major domestic political event is the Budget. Of course, everything is overshadowed by the ever-widening war being conducted by Israel, which effectively continues to have the full backing of the US and other Western powers, including Britain.
Judging by government rhetoric, it is extremely difficult to know what we should expect from Rachel Reeves’s first Budget at the end of the month. But the cliche that “actions speak louder than words” points strongly in the direction of more austerity. And, like most cliches, this one survives because it contains a kernel of truth.
It is a reasonable judgement to make that, in terms of PR, government economic policy is in disarray. A series of entirely different explanations for economic policy have been offered over the last 12 months.
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