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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Glasgow: Power to the People
Marching on the glass tower that houses energy giant Scottish Power, the people of Glasgow made it clear that the working class will not put up with criminal price hikes and fuel poverty any longer, reports STEPHANIE MARTIN
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
ON FRIDAY August 12, Glasgow’s Power to the People launched its campaign against fuel poverty with a mass protest outside the headquarters of Scottish Power in the city centre.
Hundreds gathered to send a clear message to both politicians and the super rich in Britain: ordinary families will no longer pay for these endless crises of capitalism.
Power to the People have set out three clear demands: freeze prices not people, lose the late fees, and scrap prepayment meters.
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