The US Republican administration has wasted no time in tightening the economic vice on the Caribbean island, with State Department officials making it clear that the aggression is only just beginning, writes NATASHA HICKMAN
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Any positives from the government’s green paper proposals are vastly overshadowed by the scale of the cuts to vulnerable low-income households, argues JENNY RATHBONE MS
While the council can generate much-needed income with this new charge, making the city sustainable and affordable for its all-important workers needs a wider approach that’s not just focused on tourism, writes IAN MacCORQUODALE
With young people, the disabled and the elderly in Labour’s sights as ‘easy targets’ for cuts, the labour movement must remember it’s in the vital interests of us all to defend the groups being picked off, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
SOPHIE BOLT explains why Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is organising a national protest tour at nuclear bases, starting with a demo at BAE shipyard in Barrow, where Starmer and Healey have been banging the drum for war
The Employment Rights Bill is a vital opportunity to rebalance power between workers and employers. As it passes to the Lords, pressure must be brought to bear to strengthen this key legislation, argues ANDY McDONALD MP
The arrest of Palestinian activist and former Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil is just the beginning as the Trump administration moves to silence students and union members who support Palestine, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
A new book shows the group’s close links to Labour Together, which hoodwinked the party membership into voting for Starmer on fake left promises. SOLOMON HUGHES attempts to get some answers about what ‘Blue Labour’ actually stands for
THE much-leaked proposals to slash welfare benefits saw the light of day last week. The Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall spent two hours responding to MPs’ concerns on Tuesday, with the headline target for reducing health and disability-related benefits by £5 billion dominating the headlines.
The rising number of people on benefits is a major problem. One in eight people aged 16 to 24 is not in work, training or education, a shocking statistic which poses a major headache for the whole country. The benefits bill has ballooned since Covid and is forecast to double within four years from the baseline of the international banking crisis of 2007-08.
The risk for the UK Labour government is that any positives from the green paper proposals will be overshadowed by the scale of the cuts to vulnerable low-income households. Iconic disability right campaigner Tanni Grey-Thompson described the cuts as “brutal and reckless” because they target disabled people as the problem.
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Social security is lagging further and further behind inflation and our government quite simply does not care, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
Far from addressing the causes of ill-health and disability, Starmer, Reeves and Kendall are committed to unleashing more misery for disabled people, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
Instead of raising universal credit and funding its administration, the government has chosen once again to make things worse for the most vulnerable — it’s time to fight back, writes MARTIN CAVANAGH