Established as a landmark victory for the climate movement, the CCC promised to hold governments to account. Today, it is understating the danger of climate chaos and impeding the radical action needed, says IAN SINCLAIR
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Workers are paying for the pandemic, but paying the financiers’ premium is a step too far
We are already 'paying back the debt' of Covid-19 but the government is now trying to extend that to us paying off the Bank of England too. That's completely unnecessary, explains FAWZI IBRAHIM
The real ‘humanitarian threat’ isn’t Cuba but the United States, where poverty, lack of healthcare and illiteracy abound, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
ROGER McKENZIE draws attention to the much-neglected oral traditions of the global South that define the identity – and therefore the liberation – of its custodians
Labour movement history in Britain shows workers secured reforms through collective pressure and political representation, rather than being gifted from above, writes KEITH FLETT
CLAUDIA WEBBE looks at how Britain’s Nato ally has upped the stakes in its effort to silence domestic dissenting voices
THE CHANCELLOR says that there will be a day of reckoning — sooner or later the debt must be reduced and the money borrowed paid back, that there will be a price to pay. There is indeed a price that has to be paid, but it’s not the price the chancellor has in mind.
There is always a cost when a vast amount of national wealth has either been destroyed or not materialised, as is the case with the pandemic and the lockdown. It is a price that the working class is paying now and will continue to do after the pandemic has been conquered as the wealth creators replace the wealth that has been lost.
The idea that such pain can be offloaded onto the money-wealthy millionaires through a wealth tax is a fantasy. A wealth tax merely distributes wealth, it does not create it.
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