A California union’s decision to host a meeting about US policy towards Cuba has prompted a congressional probe and renewed attacks on international solidarity, writes CAMERON HARRISON
Let them eat ... what? Britain’s implosion of political leadership
With global supply routes choked up by Covid and the war in Ukraine leading to a catastrophic shortage of grain, our nation urgently needs a 'national food plan' that will us becoming self-reliant once again, writes ALAN SIMPSON
Britain urgently needs a 'national food plan', that keeps Britain’s farmers in business and makes food affordable to the poor.
The Baltic state is set to reverse its constitutional prohibition on nuclear weapons and foreign bases as part of accelerated Nato war preparations, warns TOM UNTERRAINER
Long-term underfunding and state neglect, while simultaneously probation services have been undermined, have intensified the prison crises, argues SOLOMON HUGHES
Holyrood incompetence has cost jobs and put the future of Clydeside’s Ferguson Marine shipyard into jeopardy. Its future should have been assured, argues KENNY MACASKILL
With the agitated debate now raging in the media about the early release schemes, Prison Officers Association general secretary STEVE GILLAN gives the view of those who work in the sector
The hounding of the late Jason Arday is an all too familiar experience for many black people. ROGER McKENZIE calls for collective action to combat what can feel like personal isolation
THE 1.5 million households in Britain facing destitution and the 10 million simply in poverty will have wept at the emptiness of the government’s Queen’s Speech programme.
There’s to be no emergency Budget to pay the first £1,000 of spiralling energy costs, no windfall tax on oil and gas profiteering, no restoration of cuts in universal credit, no radical plan to support local food supply, no national home insulation programme.
Instead, communities are promised new rights to determine their local street names. I can see us all fighting to get in first — Destitution Row, Food Bank Close(d), Disconnection Drive, Poverty Place ... We will all be itching to redefine our place in Boris’s Broken Britain.
In case we get fed up with this, families will also get the right to object to their neighbour’s home improvement plans. This will not, of course, build a single new house or improve and insulate any existing ones. What it will do is shift the locus of social conflict from the catastrophic failure of government to the questionable conduct of our neighbours.
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