After more than 30 years, the printing presses have finally halted for the left-wing magazine. KATE HUDSON pays tribute to the always thought-provoking publication and explains how the editorial team are inviting feedback and comment on their continued online operations
Escaping The Matrix: the search for a sustainable future
ALAN SIMPSON laments the historic failure of Cop27 and the increasing criminalisation of climate activism as all parties ignore the simple ways out of the crisis we face
ROAD TO PROGRESS: Protesters block roads outside Parliament in July, calling for state support for insulation schemes. Labour programmes for tackling cold homes were all ditched by the Tories post-2010
Why is the Labour government so addicted to giving government jobs to Tories when it spent so long trying to oust them? In the hope the favour is returned the next time the Tories return to power, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
MARC WADSWORTH reports from the meeting to commemorate the Sharpeville Massacre 65 years ago
Despite the US withdrawal from Ukraine and economic self-harm from sanctions, European centrists maintain their bellicosity to justify military spending and distract from neoliberalism's failures, writes PRABHAT PATNAIK
Netanyahu’s failed attempt to replace Shin Bet’s chief violates longstanding Israeli political taboos, as the apartheid state’s internal power struggle spirals to a new level of crisis while Gaza burns, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Following the historic ban on companies profiting from children’s care, Unison Cymru calls for transparency in implementing the changes and extending the reform to create a truly national, profit-free care service, says MARK TURNER
The left must confront both far-right bigotry and the undeniable problems the exploitation of migrant workers by the ruling class creates — but there are few lessons from the global left on how to strike this balance, laments NICK WRIGHT
FEW people would ever mistake the former health minister Matt Hancock for Keanu Reeves. However, his involvement in the I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here TV series has become almost as mind-bending as the plot of The Matrix.
Having discharged care home patients from hospitals without any pre-screening for Covid, Hancock deserves having slurry and insects poured over him. Those who suffered the bereavement and trauma that followed might wish this to continue indefinitely. But there are wider issues about Britain’s descent into dystopian politics that the game show should not distract from.
Britain’s care system remains massively overstretched and under-resourced; the NHS even more so. The decision of NHS nursing staff to go on strike is unprecedented. It reflects the desperation of those who held other’s lives together throughout the Covid pandemic, but who are now leaving or retiring early in droves through sheer exhaustion and overwork.
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