While slashing welfare and public services, Labour’s spring statement delivers a bonanza for death-dealing bomb merchants. We now see the true and terrible face of austerity 2.0, writes MICHAEL BURKE
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The 1919 Jallianwala Bagh Massacre: we still demand a full apology
JOGINDER BAINS argues that the infamously cruel and calculated mass murder of Indians blocked into a public square and fired upon by the British Indian Army still faces a reckoning
Detailing the deluge of delusion and dishonesty pushed by the pro-war camp, IAN SINCLAIR identifies four key tactics corporate journalists use to confuse audiences and suppress opposition to the proxy war in the east
From ‘moral duty’ to ‘military Keynesianism,’ Labour manipulates language to justify slashing welfare but pouring billions into warfare, condemning communities like Glasgow South West to deeper poverty, writes MATT KERR
With politicians dismissing constituents’ fears of global war, the peace movement must look beyond Parliament to prevent catastrophe, writes TOM MORRISON
The mass movement supporting Palestine represents potential political power that the left must now embrace as central to its strategy, writes HUGH LANNING, ahead of this Saturday’s Socialism or Barbarism day school in London
Health Secretary Wes Streeting taking £53k from Tory-linked recruiter and outsourcer Peter Hearn’s OPD Group is a great example of how Labour’s rich donors shape policies targeting the poor – not their wealth, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
MAT COWARD recalls the communist and pacifist aristocrat whose commitment made a difference in the Spanish civil war, the Blitz and WWII Europe
THE British empire in India was built on piles of corpses and it did not let the blood, tears and sweat dry, from the battle of Palashi to man-made famines killing 29 million Indians and finally dividing the country before it was forced to leave.
The flip side of the history witnessed resistance to the British rule from the very beginning. Between 1765 and the national uprising of 1857-59, there were roughly 46 local revolts and uprisings against intolerable conditions including heavy taxes, confiscation of property, destruction of local industry, enforcing Christianity and ruling by coercion.
The 1857-59 revolt, though it was crushed, shook the British empire at its foundation. The challenge to the world’s worst brutal British rule continued until India achieved independence in August 1947. Anti-colonial challenges in the form of small local uprisings to nationalist and revolutionary movements.
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