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
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Resolving the local government and housing crises: an open letter to Labour
The Labour Campaign for Council Housing is calling for support for an open letter on resolving the local government and housing crisis, writes MARTIN WICKS
Houses in Bristol
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
The transformation of a stable secular state into a fractured ruin largely ruled by Western-backed fundamentalists exposes the hollow nature of ‘multipolarity’ and the absence of principled anti-imperialism today, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Facing economic turmoil, Jim Callaghan’s government rejected Tony Benn’s alternative economic strategy in favour of cuts that paved the way for Thatcherism — and the cuts-loving Labour of the present era, writes KEITH FLETT
The economic value of disability benefits far outweighs their cost, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
As tensions rise in the Middle East, the role of Iran in the region’s political balance becomes ever more significant. STEVE BISHOP assesses the current situation
WITHOUT a break from austerity the housing crisis will not be resolved. With a general election not far away and local government finances spiralling out of control, the question is posed of whether a Labour government will come to the rescue of local authorities or continue with austerity.
The Guardian editorial on the government’s Autumn Statement was right when it said that the next government “has either to repudiate Jeremy Hunt’s disastrous cuts or enact them.” The statement built-in austerity to pay for National Insurance cuts.
Media reports suggested that the Labour leadership had yet to decide whether or not to stick to Tory spending plans, as New Labour did in 1997.
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