The Milburn review presents itself as a plan to help young people into work, but Dr DYLAN MURPHY argues it is laying the groundwork for a harsher benefits regime
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Power from the profiteers to the people!
If the politicians don’t boot the profiteers out, the public will boot the politicians out, writes SEAN O’NEILL
Campaigners from across the continent will gather in Brussels on June 14 to oppose Europe’s accelerating militarisation and cuts to public services, write MAGGIE SIMPSON and BOB ORAM of No Cold War Britain
National co-ordinator for General Strike 100, HENRY FOWLER, continues his nationwide tour of partner organisations by visiting the Modern Records Centre at Warwick University
GEOFF BOTTOMS recalls meeting Fidel Castro in the ’90s after joining a Pastors for Peace caravan to Cuba, and reflects on how international support is still vital to help the island withstand economic warfare
The Ivors Academy’s hike in entry fees could turn this respected peer-assessed event into an exclusive preserve for those wealthy enough to compete, warns BEN LUNN
Peter Murrell’s weakness for the allure of prestige goods is symptomatic of modern consumer culture, says MATT KERR
RIGHT now in Scotland, the filthy rich executives of vulturous energy companies are contemplating their fate. Sooner or later, they will be made to pay for waging a cost-of-living war against the working class.
The guilty profiteers are abundant in wealth, but time is one precious commodity they are running out of.
Last Friday the Scottish Greens, junior partners in government, came out in favour of nationalising the Big Six energy monopolies and slashing bills.
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