Israel’s genocide in Gaza persists, while the war in Ukraine continues with no negotiated settlement in sight. As Europe rearms and Britain expands its nuclear capabilities, CAROL TURNER reviews the alternatives
Striking to halt the Tory Great Train Robbery
RMT members taking industrial action to defend rail jobs and services against rampant profiteering by private monopolies are standing up for us all, writes RMT president, ALEX GORDON
AMERICAN writer Mark Twain satirised 19th-century oligarchs JP Morgan and John D Rockefeller as “robber barons” of the new “Gilded Age.”
Tory Britain in 2022 feels increasingly like a Mark Twain novel. Just not as funny.
Today, private utility giants levy tolls on customers safe in the knowledge that generous donations to their sponsored politicians will see off any short-term temptation to tax their windfall profits.
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