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Tory laissez-faire approach means more poverty and misery
The government is not even pretending to have an answer to the dire situation most of us face. Workers can’t wait for it to tackle the deepening cost-of-living crisis – we have to take action ourselves, writes KEN LIVINGSTONE
Resisting the new cost-of-living crisis will mean supporting anti-austerity demonstrations once more
As six out of 10 Argentines don’t vote for Milei LEONEL POBLETE CODUTTI looks at the country’s real crisis that runs far deeper than just the ballot box
ANDREW MURRAY looks back on the ignominious career of the former US vice-president, who died earlier this week
STEPHEN ARNELL wonders at the family resemblance between former prince Andrew and his great-uncle ‘Dickie’
After Zohran Mamdani’s electoral win, BHABANI SHANKAR NAYAK points to the forgotten role of US communists in New York’s radical politics
The Labour leadership’s narrow definition of ‘working people’ leads to distorted and unjust Budget calculations, where the unearned income of the super-wealthy doesn’t factor in at all, argues JON TRICKETT MP
REPORTS this week — a fortnight before the Chancellor is due to give his Spring Statement — confirmed that households in Britain are set to suffer the worst overall decline in living standards for nearly 50 years.
Yet what is noticeable from the Tories is a complete lack of urgency when it comes to tackling the drastic and deepening cost-of-living crisis.
Millions of people face rocketing fuel bills, tax hikes and rising food prices, yet the Tories do nothing, showing that deepening poverty and insecurity are — as usual — not as important to the Tories as ensuring bigger private profits for their corporate billionaire backers.
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