Without energy and without a strategic partner, Cuba is currently fighting for its survival. While the population is literally sitting in the dark, the Trump administration is trying to definitively break the socialist project through economic blackmail. What lies ahead for the island, asks MARC VANDEPITTE
What the CWU asks of Scottish Labour
An alternative economic model run by and for local communities has already gained a foothold in some areas of Scotland — now we need the Community Wealth Building project to spread, writes CRAIG ANDERSON
FIGHT FOR THE ALTERNATIVE: CWU members outside the Scottish Parliament building, December 15, 2022
A setback for IG Metall at Tesla’s Berlin plant has ignited claims of intimidation and raised fears for the future of collective bargaining and workplace democracy, says TONY BURKE
The question for the media, in the US and across the globe, says ROGER McKENZIE, is will they do their job fearlessly and call Donald Trump out?
A recent Financial Times column on the Iran war exemplifies how the Western elite worldview is more concerned with strategy and power than legality or human life, writes ANDREW MURRAY
STEVE BISHOP considers the prospects for a settlement of the conflict and how the demands of both sides are being viewed
The PM is drawing cautious distance from Donald Trump over Iran – but history suggests Britain’s support may run deeper than it appears, just as it did during the Vietnam war, says KEITH FLETT
THE rising cost of living and the wages and earnings crisis is pushing more and more people into financial uncertainty, with many households facing the very real prospect of having to choose between eating or heating. Some won’t even have that choice as they face absolute poverty.
This unacceptable state of affairs is increasingly on display for all to see in an economy owned and run by corporate interests, as wealth created by workers flows to the already wealthy or is extracted by external investors.
Like so many workers across Britain, our members in the CWU are having to take industrial action over falling pay and attacks on their terms and conditions. Our members are currently in the fight of their lives to ensure our 500-year-old postal service isn’t chopped up, sold off and turned into a gig-economy shell of the industry we have all cherished and relied on.
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