The proxy war in Ukraine is heading to a denouement with the US and Russia dividing the spoils while the European powers stand bewildered by events they have been wilfully blind to, says KEVIN OVENDEN
Homes for people not for profit
Housing campaigner STEPHANIE MARTIN explains how her community-led union has fought back against Wheatley Homes’ social cleansing plans to demolish four 26-storey high-rise blocks in Glasgow
One can only imagine what would happen if 2.2 million Palestinian refugees were pushed into Jordan, Egypt and other Arab countries, per Trump’s proposal, writes RAMZY BAROUD
This is the most anti-migrant government in decades, argues RAVISHAAN RAHEL MUTHIAH
VICTOR GROSSMAN reports, with a little chuckle, on how US readiness to work with Russia, not just on peace for Ukraine, has thrown a spanner into the German electoral machine
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VIJAY PRASHAD examines why in 2018 Washington started to take an increasingly belligerent stance towards ‘near peer rivals’ – Russa and China – with far-reaching geopolitical effects
AS CHAIR of Wyndford Resident’s Union (WRU) I supported our community fightback against energy price gouging in April 2022, when we forced SSE to enact a price freeze for 10,000 households across Scotland.
We are a community-led union that knows how to win. So when Wheatley Homes, Scotland’s largest social housing monopoly, began a crusade against our community through the demolition of four 26-storey high-rise blocks, we were ready to launch a fightback with power in our punch.
The high-rise buildings on Wyndford Road, containing a total of 600 socially rented homes, were built in the 1960s to accommodate retired tenants in one-bedroom and bedsit flats. They were highly lucrative properties, which at one point had Glasgow’s elderly population queueing to get in.
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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
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