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Welfare cuts: an injury to one is an injury to all
With young people, the disabled and the elderly in Labour’s sights as ‘easy targets’ for cuts, the labour movement must remember it’s in the vital interests of us all to defend the groups being picked off, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
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A new book by Victoria Holmes illuminates the many hidden histories of the oppression experienced by Gypsy/Roma/Traveller community, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Even the oligarchs of the artificial intelligence industries are warning that their creations have the capacity for the ultimate destruction of the planet and its population. ANDREW MURRAY suggests that there might just be other solutions
The Labour government must deliver on its commitment to bring back privatised services into the public sector. This not only saves money but also creates accountability and generates wider social benefits, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
Public ownership of Great British Railways has enormous potential to improve our railway network, but that can’t happen unless jobs, employee rights and union recognition is at the heart of the transition, argues MARYAM ESLAMDOUST
Challenges from the unscrupulous misuse of AI to steal actors’ voice and physical likenesses is being met with a firm union response, writes LYNDA ROOKE
THERE is already widespread revulsion at the ferocity of the recent welfare cuts. However, the government seems intent on pressing ahead with them. There is also a strong possibility they are just a down payment on further cuts to come in the Spring Statement.
It is in the vital interests of the labour movement as whole to resist these cuts. The poor, disabled people and the sick are part of the working class, even if all of them are not currently in work. Every imposition on them is a disgrace, and has the potential to affect everyone in work, or seeking work.
The furious response to their proposed welfare cuts seemed to come as a shock to this government. But what did they expect? Perhaps emboldened by his popularity rising off its lows over the Ukraine issue, Keir Starmer has made it clear that he intends to plough on with his cuts.
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