That should be warning enough to end the company’s contract with the NHS, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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Pledge-breaking Labour's corporate love-in reheats policies discredited over and over again
BERNIE EVANS despairs of a government that is asking the crooks sucking Britain dry how to get the economy back on track
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
LET’S face it. It’s not as though our hopes have been dashed by this government.
After all, Labour is a party led by someone who deceived thousands of party members into voting for him as leader by making 10 decent pledges, only for almost all of them to be ditched within months.
The same someone who has an affinity for accepting freebies, for himself and party, yet insists he is restoring trust in politics! He takes advice from Blairites, and appointed an ex-banker who claims the money-laundering, customer-exploiting City is the “crown jewel” of the economy, to be his chancellor.
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Labour’s ex-banker Chancellor plans deregulation while City profits soar and customers suffer — between money laundering scandals and the exploitation of Covid loans, it’s clearly time to end this madness, says BERNIE EVANS
Everyone knows the royals cost us all a fortune, but recent revelations have shown mind-boggling greedy behaviour, like charging hospitals and cancer charities rent — it’s time for action, writes BERNIE EVANS
Raising capital gains tax to match income tax is not only economically sound but morally just, potentially raising billions for public services — it’s an absolute no-brainer for any Labour government, argues BERNIE EVANS
Labour’s refusal to challenge banking profits or tax the rich exposes its painfully hollow rhetoric of ‘tough choices,’ while the trousering of freebies and schmoozing the gambling industry undermines its basic integrity, argues BERNIE EVANS
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Labour’s ex-banker Chancellor plans deregulation while City profits soar and customers suffer — between money laundering scandals and the exploitation of Covid loans, it’s clearly time to end this madness, says BERNIE EVANS
From bankers’ bonuses to tax avoidance and personally trousering thousands in expenses before they even got to power, Labour’s current incarnation doesn’t fill BERNIE EVANS with hope