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Fighting poverty starts in the canteen
In order to remove stigma and make sure children go to lessons well-fed, all primary students must receive free school meals, argues National Education Union joint general secretary KEVIN COURTNEY
Students eat lunch in the school canteen during the beginning of the roll-out of universal free school meals for primary school children at Ysgol Y Preseli in Pembrokeshire
The recent calls to strip Michelle Mone of her peerage after she was caught scamming the public for £122 million should reinvigorate the longstanding progressive demand to completely abolish the entire undemocratic, corrupt relic, writes ELLIOT TONG
As gold hits $4,000 per ounce, soaring from only $250 back in 2001, the US national debt has reached $37 trillion — it’s all about to come crashing down, warns JOHN ELLISON, which our leaders would have known had they only studied Marx’s magnum opus Capital
Now at 115,000 members and in some polls level with Labour in terms of public support, CHRIS JARVIS looks at the factors behind the rapid rise of the Greens, internal and external
Witnessing a war of words at a meeting on tackling militarism at The World Transformed, BEN COWLES spoke to a union rep who is organising against war from inside the arms industry itself, to hear about worker-led solutions to ending weapons production
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ, ROGER D HARRIS and JOHN PERRY contrast Trump’s warships and F-35 fighters threatening Venezuela with the $20bn bailout for Milei’s collapsed economy, all enabled by a highly ideological IMF
THE Liz Truss government’s mismanagement of the economy may be noteworthy in the speed with which it has precipitated a decline in living standards and brought the country to the brink of economic collapse, but the underlying features of the crisis are nothing new.
Truss’s government is drawing the threads of the past decade into the present to weave a new pattern.
The cost of living reached critical levels even before the new government came to power — and is the consequence of more than a decade of Conservative transfer of wealth from the poorest to the richest in society.
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