SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
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Caledonia dreaming: a stronger economy with independence?
VINCE MILLS calls into question the SNP’s recent claim that freedom from Westminster, while remaining under the thumb of the Bank of England by keeping sterling as the currency, would work for anybody — or even be allowed by the EU
TALKING A BIG GAME: The SNP’s claimed links between independence and economic prosperity don’t match the realities of EU membership
For 80 years, survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings have pleaded “never again,” for anyone. But are we listening, asks Linda Pentz Gunter
Indian communist leader MA Baby considers the chilling escalation of violence against minorities and increasing impunity for their attackers under the Modi regime
by Dr David Lowry, Institute for Resource and Security Studies
This strike is about pay and conditions, says CAMERON HARRISON – but it also shows workers have the power to disrupt the mightiest war machine on Earth
WHATEVER else the SNP government’s new publication A Stronger Economy with Independence is about, it is not about independence. This publication, the third in the series, would have an “independent” Scotland firstly chained to the Bank of England by sharing a common currency with the remainder of the UK until (at some unspecified date in the future) it creates its own currency. This is necessary for the next big step in Scottish liberation — membership of the European Union.
More on the currency issue later, but let’s start with some common ground. Nobody from Rishi Sunak-supporting Tories to the Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist) would deny that current performance of the Tory government is anything less than shambolic.
But, and I am sure CPB-ML would agree with me here, there is an enormous difference between the capitalist system and its managers, or in this case, bad managers.
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