While slashing welfare and public services, Labour’s spring statement delivers a bonanza for death-dealing bomb merchants. We now see the true and terrible face of austerity 2.0, writes MICHAEL BURKE
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Women’s organiser CAROL STAVRIS delivered the main political report to last weekend’s Communist Party executive committee
Detailing the deluge of delusion and dishonesty pushed by the pro-war camp, IAN SINCLAIR identifies four key tactics corporate journalists use to confuse audiences and suppress opposition to the proxy war in the east
From ‘moral duty’ to ‘military Keynesianism,’ Labour manipulates language to justify slashing welfare but pouring billions into warfare, condemning communities like Glasgow South West to deeper poverty, writes MATT KERR
With politicians dismissing constituents’ fears of global war, the peace movement must look beyond Parliament to prevent catastrophe, writes TOM MORRISON
The mass movement supporting Palestine represents potential political power that the left must now embrace as central to its strategy, writes HUGH LANNING, ahead of this Saturday’s Socialism or Barbarism day school in London
Health Secretary Wes Streeting taking £53k from Tory-linked recruiter and outsourcer Peter Hearn’s OPD Group is a great example of how Labour’s rich donors shape policies targeting the poor – not their wealth, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
MAT COWARD recalls the communist and pacifist aristocrat whose commitment made a difference in the Spanish civil war, the Blitz and WWII Europe
SINCE the Hamas attack on October 7 and Israel’s response of an all-out assault on Gaza, there has been an unparalleled rise in the scale and strength of worldwide solidarity actions demanding a ceasefire.
In Britain, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and other organisations have organised 10 national marches so far. There have been pro-Palestine vigils, marches, rallies, sit-ins, petitions and protests in towns and cities up and down the three nations. This broad movement includes people from all age groups, from different religious communities and cultural backgrounds and from every section of society.
We have seen a huge demonstration of unity in action seeking justice for the Palestinian people in their long struggle against occupation and oppression.
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