That should be warning enough to end the company’s contract with the NHS, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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David Lynch’s classic 1980 film The Elephant Man has some cruel parallels with Britain in 2025, argues STEPHEN ARNELL
The murder of an anti-racist protester in 1979 by a special unit of the Met Police was followed by a gruelling battle to win answers about what happened on that tragic day. Now material related to that campaign is available to the public and researchers for the first time at the Bishopsgate Institute. INDIANNA PURCELL reports
In advance of the Socialism or Barbarism day school on March 29, Arise Festival’s SAM BROWSE writes on why we must oppose the cuts to welfare and the drive to war
While VINCE MILLS laments the resignation of Neil Findlay from Scottish Labour, he explains why he won’t be joining him outside the party in the ongoing struggle for a socialist future
The US Republican administration has wasted no time in tightening the economic vice on the Caribbean island, with State Department officials making it clear that the aggression is only just beginning, writes NATASHA HICKMAN
Any positives from the government’s green paper proposals are vastly overshadowed by the scale of the cuts to vulnerable low-income households, argues JENNY RATHBONE MS
While the council can generate much-needed income with this new charge, making the city sustainable and affordable for its all-important workers needs a wider approach that’s not just focused on tourism, writes IAN MacCORQUODALE
A COUNTRY wreathed in pollution, the poor barely surviving, vicious “entertainment” designed to keep the plebs in their place, overwhelmed hospitals and a nation in thrall to a royal family of little obvious use, who continue to blithely exploit their subjects.
And across the pond, a US dominated by greedy, ruthless “robber barons.” To the east, Russia plans expansion, dreaming of ever greater empire.
Britain in 2025?
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