JOE BESWICK of the London Renters Union talks to the Morning Star’s new Left on Record programme
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Facing facts on tax
There’s no avoiding the reality that decent public services need to be properly funded – and that means a progressive system of taxation, argues STUC leader ROZ FOYER
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The unnecessarily violent police intervention at a Quaker place of worship is a PR disaster and will only serve to deepen the chasm between them and the public. SYMON HILL reports
ANDREW MURRAY wonders whether recent opinion polling and a fresh local authority by-election result in Ilford are an indication that the time is ripe for the left to make inroads
Due to the actions of this government, the challenges facing those with disabilities, such as spinal cord injuries, are nigh on insurmountable, argus RUTH HUNT
General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Bizarrely, Trump’s latest attacks now include the National Zoo, but his real and racist agenda is to strip everything black from the country’s cultural institutions, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
TAX is the foundation upon which much of our society is built.
People in Scotland realise this. Polling from the Scottish Social Attitudes Survey shows that two-thirds support increasing taxation to fund more public spending on health, education and social benefits.
A poll by Opinium found 61 per cent of people think the wealthy should pay more tax than they do now, including 53 per cent of Tory voters in the 2019 general election.
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