SOLOMON HUGHES says even electoral defeat isn’t a deterrent to right-wing MPs: pro-corporate policies might lose elections but they can be lucrative nonetheless
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Symbolic hunger and the othering of the poor
At a conference on global hunger at Oxford University, DAN GLAZEBROOK realised that our urge as privileged Westerners to ‘do something’ is part of the problem
A shanty town in Mumbai, India
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Schools are at breaking point, argues NASUWT general secretary MATT WRACK — we urgently need investment in our kids’ futures
MIKE SCOTT assesses the AI threat to jobs in the first of a pair of articles on the problems it poses
Without energy and without a strategic partner, Cuba is currently fighting for its survival. While the population is literally sitting in the dark, the Trump administration is trying to definitively break the socialist project through economic blackmail. What lies ahead for the island, asks MARC VANDEPITTE
A setback for IG Metall at Tesla’s Berlin plant has ignited claims of intimidation and raised fears for the future of collective bargaining and workplace democracy, says TONY BURKE
The question for the media, in the US and across the globe, says ROGER McKENZIE, is will they do their job fearlessly and call Donald Trump out?
RIGHT now, four countries stand on the verge of famine, the first time any country has been in this position for seven years.
In Yemen, an estimated 130 children die of malnutrition and related illnesses every day — and this looks set to rapidly escalate as the British-backed and Saudi-led coalition attacks the port of Hodeidah, on which the country depends for almost three quarters of its food requirements.
Indeed, the looming famines in all four countries — Yemen, South Sudan, Nigeria and Somalia — can all be traced back to one common cause: Western-backed aggression and destabilisation.
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ROGER McKENZIE shines a light on conflicts in Sudan and Nigeria, where Western powers are intent on laying claim to valuable resources necessary for market dominance
Nigeria’s presidential spokesman grovels to the West in response to Washington intimidation, writes PAVAN KULKARNI
